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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run, these were details which might be ironed out. There was a far greater defect. As London's New Statesman and Nation said: "American assistance on such a scale cannot reasonably be expected unless Congress is presented not merely with a demand note from an Amalgamated Union of Beggars, but with convincing evidence that . . . the recipients will cooperate in undertaking to increase their own productivity and their eventual ability economically to stand on their own feet." Washington simply did not feel that the Paris Plan presented that kind of evidence...
Pathetic Fallacy. In the world beyond Flushing Meadow and the U.N. agenda, there was creeping crisis on a global scale-in Asia, in Europe, and in the minds of many men. Peace treaties had indeed been signed with Italy and other Axis satellites, but the countries still faced questions as grave as any that had been settled. No treaties with Germany and Japan were in sight. It had been Franklin Roosevelt's Grand Design, epitomized in his gamble at Yalta, that the West could reach an understanding with Soviet Russia. In continuation of the wartime alliance (and in exchange...
...nation's infantile paralysis experts gathered last week at Warm Springs, Ga. to observe the 20th anniversary of the full-scale U.S. war against polio which Franklin Roosevelt launched in 1927. The experts were shown a grim parade of 84 patients with grotesquely twisted spines and limbs-eloquent evidence that in spite of two decades of earnest slugging by medical science, the war against polio is still an uphill struggle...
Coach Mikkola, who earlier this week chalked out the winding five-mile course with Carroll Getchell, was happy to report that nobody got lost in the first full-scale hill workout. Otherwise, he wasn't in too happy a frame of mind yesterday...
Commenting on the status of the Album, co-chairman J. Anthony Lewis '48 said that the staff was being expanded to get under way soon on a broad scale of activity. He added that there are a few executive positions yet to be filled...