Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, the Big Four Foreign Ministers walked into the red marble "grand salon" of the Palais Rose, on Paris' majestic Avenue Foch. Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky came in side by side with Britain's Ernie Bevin. Vishinsky laid his papers down on the huge green conference table, then quickly walked up to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, shook his hand. "I am glad to see you again," said Vishinsky. It was noted that the Russian grinned amiably...
...mayor begged the U.S., British and French to let Western police take over the protection of all railways in their sectors. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley called the Western commandants into session to discuss what he called an "intolerable situation." To avoid international complications just before the Paris Big Four meeting, the commanders hedged. Western police, they decided, could intervene only to restore order when individual fights got out of hand...
...Russia's Jakov Malik when they began negotiating the Berlin blockade's end. Actually the job the Assembly had done was middling. It had (among other things) admitted Israel to U.N.; defeated a Latin American motion to lift the diplomatic boycott of Spain; again asked the Big Five to curb their veto. Perhaps the most significant measure-though it had little hope of success-was the decision to establish a committee to study ways & means of increasing U.N.'s efficiency, cut out unnecessary talk...
...delegates were kept talking right up to closing time. The Assembly was asked to settle the fate of Italy's former colonies, a question popped into U.N.'s lap when the Big Four were unable to agree on it. After heated debate, the Assembly firmly shelved the question until its next session. Next day, it was the distant figure of runaway Communist Gerhart Eisler which agitated the Assembly. Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy asked the Assembly to conduct an inquiry into Eisler's rights of political asylum. The Assembly voted against allowing discussion of the Eisler...
...moderate Socialists in De Gasperi's government are concerned. Led by highbrowed Giuseppe Saragat, this faction has pressured the Christian Democrats toward a new plan of land redistribution by progressive stages. Some 8,760 landholders would be affected. The state would buy up to 50% of the big holdings for resale, on easy terms, to small peasants. In the face of latifondiari resistance, the program will be hard to put over...