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...Georgia Review: "They are haunted by fear of rape; but though this is mostly envisaged in the crudest physical shape, it is probably a second spiritual violation which they dread even more. Terrified of being overwhelmed by violence, they use violence and the threat of violence to avert this disaster...
...railways, seized by the Government nine weeks ago to avert a strike, were returned last week to private ownership. The three holdout brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, switchmen) agreed, at long last, to the same 15½?-an-hour wage boost which had been accepted some time ago by all the other railroad workers...
...House Agriculture Committee, a farm-bloc group, tried to avert its imminent detonation by shelving it. But 218 Congressmen signed a petition to bring it to the floor. Last week, when the House thrashed it out, the galleries were jammed tighter than during the debate...
...States," he read, "has proposed a temporary United Nations trusteeship for Palestine. . . . Trusteeship is not proposed as a substitute for the partition plan but as an effort to fill the vacuum soon to be created by the termination of the [British] mandate, on May 15. ... If we are to avert tragedy in Palestine, an immediate truce must be reached between the Arabs and Jews. . . . With such a truce and such a trusteeship, a peaceful settlement is yet possible...
...late to avert a strike, the President appointed a fact-finding board. Meanwhile the union agreed to accept the 9? offer provided it was retroactive to Jan. 12 and that other demands were arbitrated. The packers turned that down. At week's end, 2,000 C.I.O. pickets plodded around the stockyards, watched by 2,500 Chicago cops. Meat prices jumped up from 3? to 12? in seven days...