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Clearer & Firmer. France had assumed crucial importance not only in Western Europe, but in a more immediately dangerous cold war zone-Southeast Asia. Washington now feels that the French position in Indo-China is a key to the entire area. Last week, on the eve of the London conference, Dean Acheson formally decided to help the French in their costly war against IndoChina's Communist guerrillas (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...conference produced no sensational results; but, chiefly thanks to shy Robert Schuman's bold initiative, the West's position seemed a great deal firmer and clearer than it had in some time. Reported TIME'S Washington Bureau: "Washington estimated tentatively that the Western Allies may be on the edge of their most important strategic breakthrough in the cold war since the Kremlin was forced, a year ago, to abandon the siege of Berlin...
Kirkland's basketball team took a firmer grip on first place in the A League last night by trampling Eliot 49 to 31, for its seventh straight win, Eliot never was in the game as the Deacons teamwork defense and fast-breaking attack completely outclassed the last-place Elephants...
...press has gradually evolved a code of ethics covering the ads it prints. By refusing ads they consider fraudulent, misleading, immoral or inflammatory, most metropolitan newspapers have tacitly accepted responsibility for deciding what advertisers may and may not say. And the stronger a newspaper's finances, the firmer...
There was one voice, sadder in its tone and firmer in its faith than all the others, which spoke out on Formosa this week in the eloquence of personal tragedy. Madame Chiang Kaishek, wife of the beleaguered leader of anti-Communist China, sat before a microphone in her brother-in-law's New York home to say her farewell to the U.S. before leaving to rejoin her husband on Formosa. Said...