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...logical to him: that the opposing generals meet in the field and arrange a ceasefire. He would put aside such "extraneous matters" as Formosa and Red China's claim to a seat in U.N., leave fundamental "political" questions to the diplomats. "I stand ready at any time to confer in the field with the commander in chief of the enemy forces in an earnest effort [to end] further bloodshed...
...Within the area of my authority as military commander . . . I stand ready at any time to confer in the field with the commander in chief of the enemy forces, in an earnest effort to find any military means whereby the realization of the political objectives of the United Nations in Korea, to which no nation may justly take exceptions, might be accomplished without further bloodshed...
Five representatives of the Committee will confer with the co-chairmen of the Humanities division of a New York educational foundation today to request over $50,000 for overseas seminars in Frankfort, Germany, in Cyprus, and in southeast Asia...
Within the next few hours, he hurried on to confer with the Cabinet and the Military Committee of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), dressed in well-creased pinks and OD jacket with a single row of ribbons (the Distinguished Service Medal with three Oak Leaf clusters, the Navy's Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit). Then he was ready for his first public report to the nation...
They will attend classes to study methods of training lawyers, and confer with members of the Law School faculty. The visitors represent four major universities in Japan...