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...Florida, post-convention switches in political allegiance produced a high-level standoff. After resigning as Palm Beach County Republican committeewoman, Mrs. James Dinsmore Tew II last week announced that she planned to campaign for Adlai Stevenson and "never felt stronger about a candidate in my life." The same day Mrs. Bessie L. Boyd announced her resignation as Democratic committeewoman from Dade County (Miami). Said Mrs. Boyd: "We need a change in Washington...
...essential raw materials, afterwards worked with the Latino delegates in founding the U.N. and in establishing, at Rio in 1947, a regional security system that became the model for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But as the U.S. devoted more time to the Korean war and European rearmament, high-level U.S.-Latin American exchanges became less frequent. Latinos have not been happy about it. One result: they have not cooperated in the Korean war as U.S. and U.N. officials had hoped they would...
This is no gold rush for amateurs. Already the West has invested $2 billion in the Persian Gulf area; it is the biggest overseas venture of U.S. big business. The leases are the subject of high-level intrigue; ordinarily friendly powers such as the U.S. and Britain compete feverishly, if covertly, for a sheik's favor: each Cadillac presented by a friendly U.S. company seems to be met by a Rolls-Royce coming from London...
...military commanders of both sides should recommend to their governments for joint discussion, after a truce is effected. Hitherto the Communists have been demanding that any settlement of the Korean question must also include settlement of Formosa and U.N. recognition of Red China. Now Nam simply proposed that a high-level political conference be held, within three months of signing the armistice, "by representatives appointed respectively to settle . . . the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, a peaceful settlement of the Korean question, et cetera...
...shoot unless you are shot at. It would have been better if the Eighth Army commander had called U.N. newsmen in beforehand, and told them what he was doing instead of letting them draw their own conclusions from what they saw and heard at the front. The ensuing high-level ruckus, which reverberated all the way to Washington and Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not trouble the men in the front lines. Using a bayonet to dig chunks of ham from a ration can, one G.I. sighed happily: "Man, this is pure heaven...