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...adamant. He proposed that the coming conference (in a European city to be selected later) be specifically prevented from considering such a step. He argued that censorship was exercised normally only against newsmen who were not acting in good faith and whose reports were designed to create misunderstanding and friction between nations. "Naturally," said Lomakin, "no Government can stand for that...
...part of the United States in the Greek crisis would constitute a subversion of the United Nations. Chapter VIII, Section 1, of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for U.N. organization states: "The Security Council should be empowered to investigate any dispute or any situation which may lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute in order to determine whether its continuance is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security." Section 6 of the Moscow Declaration is equally explicit: "That after the termination of hostilities they (the Soviet Union, Great Britain, China, and the United States) will...
...Churchill's chubby face, still flushed, broke into a smile. The thunderstorm was over and they parted amicably. An M.P. privately explained: "Churchill also had difficulty with Wavell. He didn't give any reason when he fired Wavell from his Middle East command. There has been growing friction between Wavell and the Government...
...mere ordering of individual wills in the interplay of vicious competitive forces. The job of law was to harmonize conflicting interests in society through the force of an organized political structure. ". . . We may think of the task of the legal order," declared Pound, "as one of precluding friction and eliminating waste; of conserving the goods of existence in order to make them go as far as possible...
...members. Until Russian aims are brought into the open in moves amenable to the conservative American voting public, this pathway looms as the only expedient for left wing groups interested in their future. For no matter what the background of our difficulties with the Soviets, the mere presence of friction on the international scene will force voters on the large scale to shy from groups with Communist backing. This is the pure pragmatic approach. It skirts the ethics and polities involved in current affairs and comes up with the only clear truth in a foggy picture--that Communists are unpopular...