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Reuter also had to make frequent trips to Western Germany, mostly to plead the city's case at Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...
Leopold tried to get Socialist Party President Max Buset to confer with him at the Laeken palace, but Buset scorned the royal summons. Said he: "People a good deal more eloquent and persuasive than I am have talked frankly to Leopold . . . with complete lack of success . . . Why should I waste my time?" But at week's end after the King ordered the army, including two battalions brought from occupation duty in Germany, to quell rioting, Buset went to the palace...
...trip and make a contribution to the peace of the world. Best wishes." Dean Acheson answered solemnly: "This is another indication of your support, which has never failed me. I will carry out your instructions and your wishes." Then he flew off, in the President's Independence, to confer with fellow diplomats of the North Atlantic community...
...Paris this week, the U.S. Secretary of State stopped for a two-day parley with French leaders. His next stop would be London. There Acheson would first confer with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, gaunt-faced (21 Ibs. below his usual 231) after an operation and three weeks in a hospital. Then France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman would join them for three-way discussions. Later, Acheson would meet with representatives of the nine other North Atlantic signatories...
With 450 courses, there will always be overlapping. But two hitches in the present cataloguing system make clashes more frequent and troublesome than they ought to be. First, there is no technique for avoiding conflicts in related fields; chairmen rarely confer with each other over schedules. Second, students have no systematic way of bringing clashes to the attention of department heads...