Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two weeks of vainly trying to settle the Berlin issue in Berlin, Germany's military governors passed the problem back to Moscow. For the eleventh time, the Western envoys went to call on Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. The Russians had agreed "in principle" to lift the Berlin blockade; in practice, they refused to budge. It was obvious by now that the Russians were merely carrying on what T. S. Eliot once called "a tedious argument of insidious intent...
Vishinsky at once attacked the conference's authority to deal with the problem at hand. "In order to make mutton stew," he stormed, "you must have mutton. In order to have a Foreign Ministers' conference, you must have Foreign Ministers." To this France's Robert Schuman, the only actual Foreign Minister in attendance, sharply retorted: "If you don't have powers to negotiate, why did you come here...
...three days the conference went through the motions, disagreed and turned the problem over to the U.N. Assembly. Russia is willing to turn the colonies over to Italian trusteeship with or without U.N. supervision. So is the U.S., but it is hamstrung by a British promise to the Senusi tribes who inhabit part of Libya. In return for Senusi help during the war in the desert the British pledged that the Senusi would never again have to live under Italian rule. The U.S., undecided on whether to please the Italians or the British and Arabs, hopes the Assembly will decide...
Housing will be no problem for '52, who will set a 'Cliffe precedent this week when every dormitory 'Cliffedweller moves her trunks into one of the six big Quadrangle dormitories. Former freshmen have had to take their chance in the housing lottery and many were stationed in off-campus houses for their first year. All freshman classes from this fall on will room on the Quadrangle...
Freshman teams, traditionally muddled at the season's beginning, have developed well the past two years, beating Yale both times. Early games have proved somewhat of a problem to Lamar and his aides, who found themselves with fifty or sixty unsorted players at game time...