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...Viceroy and Lady Wavell shook hands with the delegates, chatted about the delightful weather. This was not just chitchat. Astrologers had claimed that the conference's opening day (June 25) was inauspicious, since there would be a partial eclipse of the moon. Hindus believe that anything begun on the day of an eclipse is doomed to failure...
...aphid, feeding on leaf juices, secretes a sweet liquid called "honey-dew" to which ants are very partial. Some varie ties of ants keep herds of aphids, like cows, and milk them by stroking the abdomen gently with their antennae; a well-fed aphid may yield 48 drops of "milk...
...this issue within an issue, the U.S. and Britain had beat a partial retreat. Originally they said they would not resume negotiations with Moscow until the Poles were released or their arrest satisfactorily explained; now they had compromised. But on this point, the London delegates were not inclined to accept a compromise. Said Socialist ex-Minister of Labor Jan Stanczyk: "This puts us in a terrible position. How can we honestly negotiate in Moscow while our comrades are in jail somewhere near...
...within the British Commonwealth." Its three stages : 1 ) since the colony's progress has been interrupted by the Japanese invasion and occupation, direct rule by the governor of Burma will continue until December 1948; 2) by that date, it is hoped, elections will have been held, the prewar partial self-government enjoyed by the Burmans restored; 3) thereafter the Burmese people, having agreed among themselves, will draft a constitution to be approved by the British Parliament...
More important, Washington also started the ball rolling toward partial reconversion. From grey, owlish Fred Moore Vinson, Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, came a broad plan for easing back to civilian-goods production-without interfering with supplies for the war against Japan. But the "partial" in the reconversion plan told its own story: the U.S. still had a war to win, the U.S. economy would still be largely controlled, U.S. citizens would still feel many a wartime shortage...