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...response of official Washington was just as discouraging. Streit & friends were told that even if they were headed in the right direction, they were going too fast. Better try first to bring off a European federation. Atlantic Union would disrupt U.N. and would put an unnatural and embarrassing burden on U.S. defense forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Elijah *from Missoula | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...particularly on the U.S.-backed European payments scheme: 1) the United Kingdom's dollar reserves are so low that she cannot commit herself to any plan that would mean a further drain; and 2) as banker to the sterling area, Britain can do nothing that would tend to disrupt that trading system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Cordial Visit | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...hydrogen bomb. The uranium bomb itself is a fearful weapon, capable of cutting the guts out of a great city. Hydrogen bombs, if they work as well as expected, will be many times more fearsome than uranium bombs. But there is an enormous difference between a bomb that will disrupt a city and kill its people and one that will wipe all life off the face of a continent or the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hydrogen Hysteria | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

There was a time early in the season when Art Valpey said he had made arrangements to have all practice sessions in clear weather. As a matter of record it has not rained enough on a practice day since then to in any way disrupt the workout. True to form, the skies cleared beautifully yesterday afternoon just before the practice began...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Takes Light Work, Reports No More Injuries | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...meeting was held in a park, and to "preserve security," the speaker asked for "last initials only" and shooed away passers-by. The speaker stated, according to Warshaw's notes, that the "rumors are being spread to defame the present regime ... to disrupt the delegation." He went on to say that a girl within the group had admitted the night before that she was guilty of spreading rumors...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Youth Told of Grim U.S. at Budapest | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

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