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...pressure behind the underground was recognized this week by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine. After three months of study in the U.S., Europe and the Near East, the twelve-man committee recommended, in effect, a new policy that would scrap the 1939 British White Paper. Salient points: 1) the immediate admission of 100,000 Eufopean Jews into Palestine; 2) Jewish D.P.s are a responsibility of all the nations; 3) terrorism by Jews or Arabs must be sternly repressed...
...Manhattan. Said he: "I felt I could not pretend to any knowledge of this vast and varied country unless I had seen as much of all of it as was compatible with the claims of my work in Washington. ... By travel I acquired a truer sense of proportion about Anglo-American relations, about my work, and even about myself...
...Anglo-American squabble over transatlantic commercial flying was apparently laid to rest last February by the Bermuda air agreement (TIME, Feb.11). But last week its ghost was walking. The Senate's Commerce Committee held that the agreement was illegal and void. Its reason: the State Department and Civil Aeronautics Board had no right to make international commitments; "such arrangements . . . should be regarded as treaties, subject to ratification by two-thirds vote of the Senate...
...Anglo-American Relations" will be the topic under discussion at the sixth meeting of the Law School Forum, to be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. Participants will be Edwin Johnson, Senator from Colorado, C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, and Edward S. Mason, professor of Economics...
...Anglo-American councils, Ingersoll believes, the British played a particular game. First they tried to "win over each new American officer" by "being charming." If this did not work, they would "manufacture" evidence in order to have the officer removed. When plans for Operation Overlord (the cross-Channel invasion) were drafted in 1943, the British, who had helped to draw them up, tried to stall-for "the British always mix political with military motives." When Operation Overlord was finally forced down their throats, Eisenhower was given the big job, but "of course [he] had nothing whatever to do with leading...