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...bottle of Scotch. Then they turned to seeking a settlement that would patch up the break for the duration. On the urgency and merits of this issue, the U.S. State Department and No. 10 Downing Street were in complete accord: nothing must be allowed to create a final schism between Russia and the Anglo-American coalition; yet, if possible, the Polish Government and the postwar integrity of Poland had to be preserved...
Last week the Chicago Daily News's Bern correspondent reported that Mihailovich had resigned from his post (War Minister) in the Yugoslav Government. In denying this story, the Government in Exile confirmed a hitherto unofficial report that negotiations to end Yugoslavia's tragic schism were under way. Said the official statement: "The tendency at present is toward greater understanding." Mihailovich has been in contact with some of the minor Partisan groups. But the main Partisan force, headed by ex-Lawyer Ivan Ribar (TIME, Feb. 8), was still aloof, and the chances of real unity were therefore small...
...Burt Wheeler's Interstate Commerce Committee, he showed unexpected talents as an investigator of railroad high shenanigans. (He and canny Burt Wheeler are still good friends, despite their schism on foreign policy.) But this was too esoteric an assignment to impress many voters back home. They saw him chiefly in another light...
There were hopes that there would be dynamic moves to end once & for all the Kuomintang-Communist schism. The usual statement to the Communists (behave yourselves) was read into the record...
Some of the customary advice-to-Freshman still applies. It's usually divided into two parts, the curricular and social, and the schism stands in spite of all the transformations. In his studies the new Harvard man nearly always finds his greatest difficulty not in newly uncovered ignorance, but in simple fear. There is no blinking the fact that instruction by lecture is a terrifying method at first, and it is equally useless to deny that course work can be harrowing. Luckily, however, the instructors in Freshman courses realize that fact and will have intelligence enough to allow...