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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite smiles at the concert hall, François-Poncet became so enraged in Berlin that McCloy left, flew back to Paris to see François-Poncet's boss, Premier Henri Queuille. Late getting back to Germany, McCloy landed at Wiesbaden, 45 minutes closer to the Petersberg than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Struggle on a Mountain | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

This proposal was almost impossible for McCloy to swallow, for Germany's coal is sold abroad for dollars, and under the French scheme Germany's loss of dollars would be large. As the all-day, all-night session went on, tempers fired up and threats emerged. McCloy threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Struggle on a Mountain | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

In the end, with the commission's prestige at stake, the French budged a little on the mark rate (to 23.8?); McCloy agreed to the anti-dumping and coal clauses.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Struggle on a Mountain | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Tents & Portents. Underway in Srinagar was a convention of Sheikh Abdullah's Kashmir National Conference Political Movement, which has been running the Indian-occupied part of Kashmir ever since New Delhi sent troops into the region two years ago this month. As 650 national conference delegates tented on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Marching Through Kashmir | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

The commission's final gesture, an arbitration proposal backed by the U.S. and Britain, had been accepted by Pakistan, rejected by India. Abdullah's delegates passed a resolution denouncing the "arbitration offer sponsored by President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee" as "yet another device to deny freedom to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Marching Through Kashmir | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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