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Their objections arise both from fears of United Sates intervention in their internal affairs, and from a disbelief that Communism is really a threat to the Western Hemisphere. But the United States could stifle these objections. By using economic aid as a lever, it could force the delegates to pass the resolution as put forth. Suth pressure, however, would embitter the latin-American nations, and defeat any hope for increased cooperation...
...unfortunate diplomatic war will continue unless the State department attempts to resolve the issues by making a policy statement. The United States should insist that she will ot prejudice her friendship with Britain for the sake of Spanish air bases: France must not use America as a lever for territorial claims. Firmness may not end the conflict, defense of Western Europe, and would assure the British that America respects her intention to remain at Gibraltar...
...said the note, devote all atomic material to peaceful purposes? This was a skillful playback of a seven-year-old Soviet propaganda line on which U.N. atomic conferences have always foundered. The line has clamored for an immediate outlawing of atomic bombs (the West's prime lever against vast Soviet armies), while the Russians have fought any effort to set up a system of inspection which would insure real international control of the atom and protect the world against the Russians' breaking their promise...
...days for the aluminum outside walls), architecture has taken a back seat. To conform to zoning restrictions, most of the buildings rise in a series of recessed blocks, like Babylonian ziggurats and great wedding cakes. A few, like the U.N.'s stone and glass sandwich and Lever House's glass slab, have broken the pattern. But in midtown Manhattan, the wedding cake leads the field...
...only other major daily, the Herald Tribune, which has its own photoengraving plant, suspended its publicatio Monday in sympathy with the six papers, refusing to be used as a lever in the dispute...