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...Foreign Minister Molotov and the others was given a crystal-clear exposition of U.S. attitudes and intentions. In a dispassionate, soberly frank speech last week, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Russia that its own attitude of distrust and its belief in the inevitability of World War III were at the root of the "continued if not increasing tension" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...Balkans were neither romantic nor obscure nor confusing. The situation last week was hideous, crystal-clear and simple. The Balkans formed a sharply contoured pattern of forces representing all that was worst in postwar Europe...
...Hong Kong, Britain's Chinese crown colony. Did Britain mean to keep it or give it up? First socialist Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin answered bluntly: "We have taken steps to receive the surrender of the Japanese forces in Hong Kong." Then Prime Minister Clement Attlee made the matter crystal-clear: "Plans for re-establishing British administration in the colony are fully prepared...
...Dumbarton Oaks draft enjoins the Security Council to encourage and work through "regional arrangements and agencies." But the proposals neither define "regional arrangements" nor draw a clear line between them and the master world-arrangement. On only one aspect of this question are the proposals crystal-clear: "No enforcement action should be taken under regional arrangements or by regional agencies without the authorization of the Security Council...
...General Plastiras made his attitude crystal-clear: ELAS must first lay down its arms before EAM could enter his Government. Thereafter he promised: 1) re-establishment of democratic institutions, 2) free elections. He added grimly: "I hope the rebellion will end with the rebels laying down their arms . . . trusting my word that I will not allow a dictatorship. ... If not, I will naturally be compelled to clear the situation by force." Leftish Foreign Minister Sofianopoulos 'backed his leader; ELAS was a minority, must lay down its arms...