Word: diminisher
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...meeting of Commuters yesterday afternoon, students pointed out that they should try to get representative power this year before Holmes Hall reduces their number and influence. At present Commuters make up 25 percent of the student body. The new Hall will diminish their number by at least five percent...
...Communists in the country. It does mean that P.R. tends to suppress the overriding political fact in France today, i.e., that the fundamental issue lies between the Communists and the nonCommunists. On the surface, the non-Communist parties agree that the election law should be changed so as to diminish Communist strength, but when they get down to cases, each non-Communist party seeks a law that will give it an advantage over the other. The Communists, who want to keep the present law, simply vote with whatever non-Communist group is against any particular new scheme. This has defeated...
...there are now 110,000 police and 25,000 soldiers, including nine battalions of British, eight of Gurkhas, and four (soon to be six) of Malays. They are supported by some R.A.F. planes and Royal Navy ships. Despite all efforts, however, the number of Communists does not seem to diminish, but stays consistently between three and five thousand...
...unless France is rapidly rearmed. Former U.S. complacency with the foot-dragging of weak French governments cannot be reconciled with the new U.S. commitments to Europe. Washington will have to press the French into rearmament, and when that is begun, French fears of German rearmament are more likely to diminish...
...actions to resist or diminish the aggressive power of world Communism are protected by an umbrella-the superiority of the anti-Communist world in atomic bombs and in the long-range ability to equip and sustain modern armies, navies and air forces. The U.S. superiority in atomic bombs is probably at least 10 to 1. The superiority of the free world over the Communist world in steel production is 4 to 1, in oil 10 to 1, in aluminum...