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...Newcastle. Americans had smugly recognized that Britain's decline must be accompanied by U.S. political expansion into some areas; but this expansion had been visualized in the painless future. The coal crisis in Britain brought U.S. responsibility much nearer for a host of immediate world problems. President Truman offered to send Britain coal; Attlee declined coals for Newcastle, giving a reason that reminded Americans of what it means to have worldwide responsibility. Attlee said continental Europe needed the U.S. coal more than Britain...
...nearer a final soluton today than it was two months or two years ago, the Palestine crisis still awaits firm and honest British action. The partition plan that was presented this fall has been dropped by Whitehall after both Jews and Arabs refused to accept either part or all of the proposal. Jewish circles envisioned little merit in any "autonomous" Jewish State in Palestine that would be unable to fix its own immigration quotas and thus determine its own destiny. The Arabs, (although it is doubtful that the extremely vocal land-owning Arab spokesmen represent real Arab sentiment), have often...
Judge Picard found the actual time required to be much nearer the lesser figure and on the basis of his findings dismissed the complaint as being too small to require judicial attention...
...departure drew nearer, a state drive from Buckingham Palace to Waterloo Station was carefully rehearsed, but when the great day dawned raw and cloudy, London was blanketed with snow, virgin white on the rooftops, instantly debauched into slush on the streets. Open horse-drawn coaches were abandoned in favor of the family's cosy Daimlers. But in drab Waterloo, draped with tattered bunting, crowds stood shivering six-deep to watch the farewells. Before a royal Pullman smothered in hyacinths and cyclamen, the Queen pecked at her relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister...
...youth. He sat down facing the great mountain, which rose so steeply above him that he had to bend his head back to see the splendor of the sunlit, snowcapped summit. Kusunose sat down on Dec. 9. On Dec. 17 or 18, Death, which had been creeping nearer for nine days, sat down beside...