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...Among his accomplishments: abolition of segregation in New Jersey's National Guard, an increase in teachers' minimum salaries (from $1,200 to $2,200), a sickness-liability law covering 1,600,000 workers and a $50 million veterans' housing program...
Needed: Definition. At the core of the European jam was Germany. The Western powers had never really agreed among themselves on a policy toward the new West German Republic. Within the loose framework of the occupation statute (TIME, April 18), they floundered between a policy that would build up West Germany as soon as possible (which by & large is the U.S. aim); and a suspicious policy of keeping West Germany's sovereignty and industrial potential in stringent check (which is the French aim). Western policy needed new, sharp definition, particularly since the Red puppet state in East Germany...
...Western Germany is about to be used as ... a springboard for a new aggression on the Soviet Union." When he had quieted down, the U.S.'s Warren Austin dramatically delivered the West's answer to Vishinsky. It was a sweeping Anglo-American resolution on "Essentials of Peace." Among other things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free...
...Dividend among the seven Houses which collected $5,622 dollars for them last year, the students are: John Czernyha '51 of Kirkland, Anton Bajuk '51 of Dunster, Robert Grasselli '52 of Winthrop, Sergei Yermakov '5 2of Lowell, Andrys Grots '52 of Leverett, Peter Danes '52 of Eliot, and Benon Przybielski '51 of Adams...
There are a few scenes that come close to success--the servants gossipping in the kitchen, town characters at the pub. Among the characters, James Mason is kindly and venerable, Barbara Mullen patient and faithful, and Margaret Lockwood sufficiently distracted for her part. The whole cast acts far above the lines...