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Alone, the United States grapples with the problem of the atomic bomb. Thus far our legislators, deaf to the warnings of the leading scientists, have shown no inclination to permit international control. They give tacit credence to Winston Churchill's bland assurance that "no one sleeps less soundly in his bed" because the United States possesses the atomic bomb. Serenely, they overlook the millions who scarcely touch their beds as they labor night and day to reduce the margin of military supremacy now possessed by this country. Nor will many men anywhere sleep soundly so long as this greatest...
...shippers, anxiously waiting for Congress to chart a shipping policy, could finally weigh anchor. Congress passed the Bland Bill, which provides for 1) the disposal of surplus war-built ships; and 2) refunds to ship operators to reimburse them for the high cost of ships purchased during the war. From the vast U.S. merchant fleet of 40,080,000 tons, 61% of all the ships in the world, the U.S. Maritime Commission will put on the block 2,000 or more slow Liberty ships, about 400 faster Victory ships and C-type cargo liners, and about 550 speedy tankers. Selling...
...Premier Willem Schermerhorn. Guests included British Minister of State Philip Noel-Baker, who had publicly demanded that Indonesians and Dutch get together; Netherlands Minister for Overseas Territories J. H. A. Logemann, who had publicly barred a return of "the extinct past" to the East Indies; Old Etonian Sir Nevile Bland, who as Ambassador to The Hague has the delicate job of relaying British views on how the Dutch should run their empire; Java-born Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, the Acting Governor General, fresh from the rebellious East Indies. No Indonesians were present. The empire-menders came quickly...
Ghoulish Sororities. Americans, Author Miller found, were much like their cities. The young men were "mild, bland, pseudo-serious ... as though turned out by a university with the aid of a chain-store cloak and suit house." The middle-aged were "puffy, wattle-faced, [filling] the land with prosperous, restless, empty-headed, idle-handed widows who gang together in ghoulish sororities. . . ." The aged were "horrible living examples of the embalmer...
...chief prosecutor. Warrants for the arrests of more & more suspects (286 to date) poured from U.S. Army desks. Japan's entire ruling class-diplomats, businessmen, journalists, educators-had the jitters. But when anyone mentioned the words senso hanzaisha (war criminal), they kept their faces straight and bland...