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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...objective in Europe: restore Europe's peace and economic equilibrium. With that objective he was going to London to sit with Molotov, Bevin and Bidault on the fate of Germany and Austria. "My purpose [is] to concentrate solely on finding an acceptable basis of agreement to terminate the present tragic stalemate," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Understanding | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...university broke another custom by letting "the pride of Virginia, Mr. George Catlett Marshall," speak at the convocation. He recalled wartime conferences with Britons. The idea of understanding lighted his words again, this time with warmth. "We almost invariably reached agreement no matter how complex the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Understanding | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...days the Assembly had acted on 63 agenda items; Russia and the West had not reached agreement on a single issue that would help make the peace. Russia announced that she would boycott the "Little Assembly" (created to function between regular assemblies), the commission established to supervise the Korean elections, the establishment of a permanent Balkan Commission. Most of the 70 days' work was a propaganda brouhaha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: What Sammy's Nickel Bought | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...leave. In one corner of the visitors' gallery, a pair of earphones lying on a chair continued to buzz. The translator's voice, like some angry insect, was a reminder that to carry physical communication to the edge of the perfect did not advance understanding, much less agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: What Sammy's Nickel Bought | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Last week the Adventists announced at they had signed an agreement with the United Auto Workers (CIO). Adventist auto workers agreed to contribute the monetary equivalent of union dues to a sick-benefit or some other workmen's benevolent fund, and to refrain from backing either side in the event of a strike. In return, they will receive from the union a card exempting them from all dues, meetings and other union activities in any of the U.A.W.'s 900 locals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Separatists | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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