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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasions when they meet each other, to agree at least to keep France at a distance. We regret these contretemps for them, for us, and for the world. But we know that our equilibrium is identified with the equilibrium of peace, and we are fully decided not to abandon it, in the certainty that, after various oscillations, our attitude will finally determine the equilibrium of the needle for the good...
...metes and bounds of authorized athletics were set out in a recent order of the Berlin Kommandatura intended to ban group sports that might promote military training for young people. The new ruling requires sports clubs to abandon ten sports, specifically approves nine others...
...Inefficiency-"many persons on board perished" because he failed to give timely orders to abandon ship...
November 20. The Jap envoys handed Hull a five-point ultimatum which called for the U.S. to abandon all its checks on Japanese aggression...
...last spring's management-labor charter (TIME, April 9), which has not altered the battle lines by an inch. President Truman's observers reported back to the White House that he had misplaced his hopes in banking on the conference to settle anything; he might as well abandon them...