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...spite of all the difficulties and dangers (see below), many a correspondent was doing a competent job of reporting. The flood of interviews with combat-weary G.I.s, which had brought down the wrath of General MacArthur (TIME, July 24), had largely dried up. Now the cables gave a clearer, more matter-of-fact picture of the kind of guerrilla war the U.N. troops were fighting and how they were reluctantly learning the inhuman way they had to fight it (see WAR IN ASIA...
Willing But Beset. There was some truth, but a lot of exaggeration in this alarming picture. Last week it was possible to get a clearer and cooler idea of the "Puerto Rican problem." Even Marcantonio's hold on the immigrants was not what it once was. Mayor William O'Dwyer's administration had done a lot to cut down Marcantonio's power, by installing Spanish-speaking teachers and relief workers in the neighborhood, thus convincing the new people that someone besides Vito Marcantonio took an interest in them...
...Clearer & Firmer. France had assumed crucial importance not only in Western Europe, but in a more immediately dangerous cold war zone-Southeast Asia. Washington now feels that the French position in Indo-China is a key to the entire area. Last week, on the eve of the London conference, Dean Acheson formally decided to help the French in their costly war against IndoChina's Communist guerrillas (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...conference produced no sensational results; but, chiefly thanks to shy Robert Schuman's bold initiative, the West's position seemed a great deal firmer and clearer than it had in some time. Reported TIME'S Washington Bureau: "Washington estimated tentatively that the Western Allies may be on the edge of their most important strategic breakthrough in the cold war since the Kremlin was forced, a year ago, to abandon the siege of Berlin...
...spill over into questions of sales, competition, the state of the industry, in fact all aspects of the company. (Only business that is specifically the union's, such as grievances and wage demands, is excepted). As a result of screening committee give and take, the employees have a much clearer idea of the company's problems and the reasons behind its decisions; management on its side gets a thorough report of problems in the plant...