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First Concession. Perhaps the most crucial focal point of Big Three troop concentrations is Germany. For months, the U.S. and Britain have brought well substantiated charges that the Soviet Army is spurring production of war materials in Germany's Soviet zone. (Excerpts from a long bill of particulars: V-weapons are being made at Sömmerda near Erfurt, at Halle, at Nordhausen and in the South Harz; fuel for V-weapons at Leuna; aircraft at Gotha; machine-gun parts at Leipzig; tank chains at Plagwitz; Red Army uniforms at Plauen...
Thompson recommends: 1) "focal walls"-catching pupil attention by painting the facing wall a darker or lighter value than the side walls; 2) "glare minimization"-equalizing lights and shadows by painting window walls in brighter colors than the opposite walls; 3) "correct room orientation"-cool colors (blue and green) for rooms with west or south exposures; warm colors (red, orange, yellow) for those with east or north exposures...
Staying? In its third week, UNO was already a town meeting of the world. This was largely due to U.S. insistence at San Francisco that the Big Power veto could not shut off discussion. UNO was already the focal point for issues that disturbed the world's peace-despite Russia's blunt insistence fortnight ago that nothing except the Big Three really mattered. Hope rose last week in London that it might grow from a forum to a town meeting in the effective New England sense...
...Russians were withdrawing from Manchuria, the focal point of China's civil war (see INTERNATIONAL), Chinese Communists were taking over in their wake...
Unlike the Dutch, the French troops (including the veteran 2nd Armored Division) bore the brunt of the fighting. Last week they captured the focal Annamite resistance center of Tayninh, some 50 miles northwest of Saigon, and got their first overland link with food-rich Cambodia. But the Annamites kept up bitter fighting in the bamboo forests, effectively sniped and sabotaged...