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...Jews adjourned until December 17, the British have time to revise their partition offer by recognizing the importance of permitting the Jews to conduct their affairs independently. Similarly, the British can find a means by which to present the plan diplomatically but firmly to the Arabs as a "fait accompli," with the almost inevitable result that the Arabs would grumble a bit and then accede. Both Jewish and Arab extremists must be ignored, for the plan is essentially one of compromise. But the most important element is speed. British soldiers are dying in Palestine and Jews are rotting...
...laxness of our State Department and its individually indolent members has led to one Russian fait accompli after another from Berlin and Vienna to Seoul and Peiping, and the jelly-spined attitude of America's "diplomats" (sic) allows Russia to dare to plot still other grabs and double-faced deals. . . . Now, in 1946, is the time to give Stalin, Molotov & Co. to understand that this nation will tolerate no ambitions of world conquest...
Last week Empey's mutiny ended in complete victory. WSA, confronted with a fait accompli, finally gave...
Finally, they would present their findings to the United Nations for ratification, but that august body would largely be confronted by a fait-accompli. The ministers would then return to London for the next problems. Writing the peace might take months or possibly years...
...means a fait accompli, as some press accounts tend to suggest, the proposals for revision will undergo concentrated examination and sharp controversy before they can become a part of the College program. Most of the opposition is expected to arise from specialists in a verity of areas...