Word: globally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference's failure. Said he: "The British are stubborn, but disagreeably so. The Americans are stubborn, but charmingly so." This hard rock of stubbornness had, time and again, tripped up the cautious diplomatic steps to find a compromise on the big question of an all-powerful global air authority, the smaller problem of the "five freedoms of the air" under which global flying would be done. Actually, the withdrawal of Russia-occupying one-sixth of the earth-made many of these arguments academic...
...Britain's tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would monopolize global flying. Stubbornly, Adolph A. Berle Jr., nimble-witted chairman of the U.S. delegation, demanded the freest of competition, argued that cartelization would hamstring postwar progress in aviation...
...Simmons, president of Simmons Tours, explained why: "Assuming the global war lasts three more years, it is extremely unlikely that the U.S. Government will start issuing passports for foreign pleasure travel until at least two years after the last shot has been fired. ... So there is no use getting excited ... at least so far as Europe is concerned. And the less said about the Orient the better...
China's Puzzles. And there was the further complication of Washington's peripatetic global emissaries whose powers, purposes and accreditation were often more baffling than any Chinese puzzle. There was Vice President Henry Wallace. He cocked a nutritional eye at China's permanently underfed people, bent an eager ear to gossip of Chungking's and Chiang's political instability, buzzed back to Washington to pour his frightening reports into the Presidential ear. Then there were President Roosevelt's personal representatives, Donald Nelson, all new to China and China to him, and Major General Patrick...
Some 1,600 U.S. Army & Navy doctors, many back from the global war, gathered last week at the convention of the Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S., in Manhattan. They heard over 100 papers on the latest practice in tropical medicine, wound surgery, venereal disease, etc. Highlights...