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...With prompt identification and immediate treatment, the way may be open to the saving of thousands of lives...
...proposal to provide a $300,000 mansion in Manhattan for Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., drew a prompt veto from the prospective tenant. The Lodge reasoning: a waste of money. "I suppose [it] is part of my education in the idiotic things that happen in a bureaucracy . . . The one thing I am not trying to do is increase the expense of the Government. My whole effort is in the opposite direction...
Sears stated he felt it was his duty as an alumnus to ask Griswold to take "firm, prompt, public action . . . if the Law School is to retain the position it has established over the years...
...seems doomed. United Fruit may then peg its hopes on a statement of principle enunciated by Cordell Hull after Mexico expropriated U.S. oil companies in 1938. Secretary of State Hull conceded that a government had the right to expropriate property, but insisted that compensation must be "adequate, effective and prompt."* By depositing bonds of doubtful worth to United Fruit's account in the National Treasury. Guatemala seems only to have been prompt...
...announced that France had no intention of reneging on the EDC idea, which it had proposed in the first place. It considered its "protocols" to be not amendments to the treaty, said Bidault, but only "interpretive" addenda which need not be ratified, need not even cause any delay in prompt ratification of the treaty in the six West European Parliaments. What is more, said he, France is perfectly willing to consider changes in the "protocols" themselves...