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Beneath the official calm, there were some barely discernible stirrings. Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching called in his assistants for new strategy meetings to see if anything further could be done about the steel strikes. In the State Department, Counselor George Kennan set to work imagining himself in the Kremlin, trying to guess how the new bomb would influence Stalin's thinking and plans. Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon called AEC officials to closed sessions of his Joint Atomic Energy Committee and talked vaguely of "more bucks" for the nation's atomic program...
Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, reflecting over his failure to break the deadlock, sadly summed up: "It's a matter of principle with both sides." Undoubtedly it was. But the people of the U.S. would have a hard time understanding just what the principle...
...week's end, Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, a hulking, peace-loving man, suggested that they all meet with him in Washington. Taking the amiable view that the disputants just did not understand one another, Ching said optimistically: "There is a good possibility that the argument springs not from irreconcilable, fundamental differences, but from the meaning of words. At any rate, it is my duty to ascertain whether this is the case...
This week the disputants traveled to Washington. There, at the head of a delegation of 71 officials of the nation's steel companies, Fairless met a very weary-looking Phil Murray. They posed together for photographers. Said Ching: "Let us all say 'cheese' when we have our picture taken so we will look pretty." Then they got down to business in the Labor building...
...This time Murray made his meaning quite clear. To reporters he said: "If by late Saturday night the companies have not agreed to 4? for insurance and 6? for pensions on a noncontributory basis, the mills will go down. I can say that flatly." Steel operators had no comment. Ching, still hopeful, looked forward to another meeting the next...