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...their troubles at the conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, which will be held in London in November. Canada, the only dollar nation in the Commonwealth bloc, seems more skeptical than hopeful. Preparing for the conference last week, Ottawa took the attitude of a rich cousin invited to a family reunion-sorry for the less fortunate relatives, wary lest they make an unwelcome touch...
...challenge. Snapped one last week: "Let [Canadians] look at our domestic policies. We might look at theirs too, and conclude that one reason Canada is doing so well is that it isn't pulling its weight. It hasn't even the guts to demand conscription." The family reunion promises to be a forum for some healthy plain talk...
Dawes was attending the 40th reunion of the class of 1884 at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. Said TIME: "Naturally, since a big convention was going on at Cleveland, there was some listening-in by radio. Several members of '84 were at it. After a hot roll call, the Republican nominee for Vice President was announced. It was one of those very Marietta '843 [Dawes himself] who were listening in. And he exclaimed . .. : 'Well, I declare...
...Denver and his arrival in the convention city had been something of a triumph. At station after station, thousands of people gathered to catch a glimpse of him, hear him denounce Taft's steamroller methods. For a while, after his arrival, Eisenhower forgot politics and attended the annual reunion of the veterans of the 82nd Airborne Division. Amid flickering candles and muffled drums for the dead, Eisenhower wept. He recalled how he had visited the 82nd on the eve of its drop into Normandy, how the men had smiled at him and told him in effect...
...turn back Farben's successors to their original owners is a milestone along the road of German recovery. Is it also a detour leading back to the cartel, with all its restrictive agreements? The danger is great; since wartime, Farben companies have shown a marked hankering for reunion. A few years ago, Farben companies in the U.S. zone were split into 42 different units. They have since merged into twelve. Furthermore, no one doubts that the Big Three Farben successors would like nothing better than to rejoin forces, and drag in the others. What may stop them...