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...soft answer to Red wrath. In his endeavor he had the aid of reasonable, democratic Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and of a Polish Socialist, Deputy Premier Jan Kwapinski. With other moderates in the Polish Cabinet, these men labored long last week to produce an answer which-so they thought-would mend the worst fracture in the United Nations' frame. Five times the Cabinet met. Five times Mikolajczyk or Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer or Ambassador Count Edward Raczynski rushed to Eden's office, scurried back for more talk...
Golf to Bridge. Local citizens' committees have arranged for golf and riding (only activities for which there is any charge), for dances and rainy-day bridge games. There are even provisions to mend uniforms, bring war-scattered records and pay accounts up to date, provide low-cost quarters for family visitors...
...question every American is asking-How long will the war last?-will be answered only by history. But before so very long, unless men in high places mend their guesses or their talk, the nation may have a bad case of the jitters...
Democracy at Work. In Des Moines, the state legislature prepared to mend matters as best it could, after finding that the page boys and clerks had been pushing the voting buttons on the desks of absent members...
Then it seemed that Marvin Collins' luck was on the mend. Officers sent him to a U.S. base hospital somewhere in India and the dentists furnished him a set of teeth. Collins beamed as he boarded the train for New Delhi. But after he tested his teeth on canned salmon he got sick, leaned out the train window, lost salmon and teeth, too. Last week the Army newspaper, Roundup, was crusading for "Teeth for Collins." They thought this time it might be worked through British dentists, on reverse Lend-Lease...