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...decades before, the ideal of collective security would surely have died. Investing the Security Council's power in the UN Assembly, where the veto cannot embalm action, allowed the United States to seek and receive the moral support for the Korean venture which only an international assembly can confer. These measures clearly mark the change in attitude from pre-war shilly-shally to today's resolve...
...city council has instructed City Manager John J. Curry to confer with Fire Chief John F. Collins and Police Chief Patrick F. Ready to discuss the advisability of adopting the three-days-off reward permanently. The action came after Councilman Edward A. Crane pointed out that at least 25 false alarms have been sounded in the last few weeks...
...confer with Soviet Ambassador Constantin Oumansky during the period of the Soviet-Nazi pact...
...work briefing himself on military and diplomatic matters. While he worked, his aides started to pack his belongings (Lodge as a lame-duck Senator will have to move out in January). Lodge operated a good deal by phone, refused to say with whom he was planning to confer. A few Washington officials waited a little nervously for the phone to ring. Said Michael McDermott, State Department press officer: the department would be "completely at [Senator Lodge's] disposal...
...week's end Ike had managed to get in a few rounds of golf (see below), but that "no visitors" rule had gone by the board, and Republican politicos were already beginning to roll into Augusta to confer with the general. These conferences, together with plans for the White House meeting and the Korea trip which is to follow it, promised to make Ike's vacation more taxing than the average American's work week...