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Nelson mapped out what will be typical "recruiting" strategy: The Schools Committee, representatives will interview promising High School seniors during the summer, "attempting to dispel any false notions" they may have about the University...
...Western authorities believe that East Germans were pressing for a return from Poland of former German territory beyond the Oder and Neisse Rivers; this sentiment smoldered underground, undermined Red rule, disturbed the Communist regimes in neighboring Poland and Czechoslovakia. Bierut's visit to Berlin was apparently designed to dispel the reports of ugly ill feeling between the satellites. But to Westerners it looked as though the comrades did protest too much...
Last week the Pentagon took steps to dispel this strategists' nightmare. It announced that two U.S. National Guard divisions will begin moving next month to Japan. The 40th (California) now at Camp Cooke, and the 45th (Oklahoma), at Camp Polk (La.), will finish their training at Japanese bases. While stationed in Japan they will "provide additional security" for that country...
...quest for unity. At a cabinet meeting in May 1950, France's able Robert Schuman had drawn from his briefcase the dramatic proposal to integrate French and German coal mines and steel mills. More, he said, was at stake than an economic rationalization. His plan would dispel the war-breeding rivalry over the Ruhr's heavy industries, would lay a base for Continental cooperation ("The rallying of European nations requires that the secular opposition of France and Germany be eliminated"). Though the plan bore Schuman's name, it had been worked out mainly by astute Jean Monnet...
...proprietor of the kennel hastened to dispel the illusion. "Sure he's here," be said. "After all them phone calls from newspaper guys, I went up to check up on the mutt. He never felt better...