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...late Count Bernadotte's proposal to turn Negeb over to Egypt has indirectly resulted in new outbreaks of violence in the Near East. Such reactions to new proposals make it more apparent than ever that the United Nations should revert to the less distasteful original partition plan, or face the certainty of continued...
Some Burmese leaders think there is a chance that the army veterans might revert to the government side. Most optimistic is pretty, petite Mrs. Aung San. "After all, they are my husband's old army, and practically my sons," she says. "I am just like a mother to those boys. They'll come home soon and we'll welcome them back to the family...
...tactic was old; international Communism had gone through three distinct phases of softening its militancy.† As early as last January, there were signs that the Red propaganda line would revert to "peace." Girding their loins for the Italian elections and the Marshall Plan battle. Communists meeting in Milan formed a "peace front" (TIME, Jan. 19), which in Palmiro Togliatti's words would "characterize Communist activity throughout the present historical phase" and would play on "the profound anguish which grips all classes at the very thought...
Less precise but more emphatic was Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of President Truman's Economic Advisory Council (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Unless consumer credit expansion was checked, said Economist Nourse, "the hopeful 1950s would revert to the distressing conditions of the 1930s." Nourse had a powerful ally in Senator Robert A. Taft, who said he would support a bill to put Regulation W back on the statute books. If U.S. businessmen took too big a swig from the bottle, they would soon find the cork back...
Refreshingly different from other college libraries in its minimum fines and restrictions, Widener is loath to revert to the edict of 1931 and expel every student caught defacing a book. But in view of the wholesale destruction of bound newspaper copies, the cross-hatching of back examination forms, and the tendency to question the statements of unpopular authors with ink and bad taste, the library staff may be forced to apply thumb screws where simple warnings fail. However, even the most stringent regulations would only tax the ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come...