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...Between Indonesians and Dutch, the British muddled. (Technically they were present in the Indies to accept the Jap surrender and to keep order during the process.) With India, Burma and Malaya in the back of their minds, they trod warily, favoring neither full native autonomy nor a return to prewar colonialism. "If the Dutch make a reasonable offer," said a British spokesman, "the rest depends on the Indonesians. We can only satisfy reason; then we must deal with unreason." Significantly he added: "If matters come to the use of force by the Dutch, world opinion will not stand...
Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Mary Leta Dorothy Slater), 31, Hollywood's No. 1 sarongstress ; and A.A.F. Major William Ross Howard III, 38, prewar Virginia lumbermill-owner, onetime Maryland state legislator: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: John Ridgely. Weight...
Married. Major Benjamin Welles, 29, bonvivacious elder son of sobersided Sumner Welles, and prewar New York Timesm&n., soon to join the Times's China staff; and Cynthia Monteith Aitken, 28, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
...literally worth its weight in gold. As far back as last fall the War Production Board solemnly warned that tin was so scarce that the U.S. might run out completely in 1946. The hope had been that when Far Eastern tin sources, which produced 92% of prewar U.S. tin, were surveyed, enough hidden stockpiles would be found to end the shortage...
...completely replaced, which will take two years. Of the rest, only 41 will be in operation by next August while the 46 others will not be back in service until June 1947. Thus it will be from three to four years before the industry hits its full prewar rate of 76,800 tons a year...