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...pleased to reciprocate the same friendly sentiments you expressed to me and to express my intention of avoiding anything which might disturb our relations...
...French Riviera, Spain and Portugal faced difficult moments. Last week they were all diplomatic smiles toward the U.S. Replying to President Roosevelt's assurances that the United Nations had no designs on their territory, Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco said he would avoid "anything which might disturb our relations in any of their aspects," and Portugal's President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona spoke of "unalterable and confident friendship...
Thus did President General Manuel Avila Camacho address last week's opening session of the Mexican Congress. He was explaining to his people the reason why war reached across wide expanses of oceans and crossed high mountains of prejudice to disturb the siestas of even the humblest peon. He talked of a "new social, economic and international order." He warned that peace, when it comes, "will not endure without a general modification of the methods of labor, without the humanization of the system of commerce, and without an efficient recognition of the rights which each nation...
...point was that R.A.F. minelayers* and United Nations submarines had been able to disturb important German shipping routes. In addition to draining raw materials from Sweden and Finland, Germany uses the sprawling, landlocked Baltic as a highway for transporting troops and supplies to the Leningrad area, the Finnish front and northernmost Norway...
...Society has sound reasons for this course. Peace-loving U.S. Quakers have been split for more than a century by bitter religious differences; only since World War I have Friends managed to bring about something like Quaker unity. They are very reluctant to let any new issue disturb that unity-especially since Midwestern Evangelical Quakers (who are strong on doctrine) still look askance at East Coast Quakers, many of whom are Hicksites who put the authority of the Inner Light before the authority of the Bible...