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...toured the horizon, it became clear that neither side was going to open the way to a major breakthrough. Johnson found Kosygin temperate, intelligent, experienced, but firm. The U.S. must let the Vietnamese settle their problems, Kosygin insisted, but the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. should force a Middle East settlement???on largely Arab terms. They agreed on Israel's right to existence, but the two had already said so before; Kosygin had even mentioned it when citing the "new realities of the nuclear age" at the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the week. They agreed on the importance...
...Minister of Public Works in his "Cabinet of Sacred Union" (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Soon he faced a threatened strike of one-third of a million French coal miners. Diving into the fray he managed in one week to win both operators and employes to his plan of settlement???which involved financial sacrifices by both. When the present cabinet crisis occurred with the fall of the government of Aristide Briand, the tenacious Dauphin was clinging to his Ministery of Interior (bestowed by Poincaré a year ago), a key post since the incumbent controls the local government and the police...
...Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland, who preceded Pilsudski to Geneva. The Council had even laid down provisional terms of settlement???terms not wholly agreed to by stubborn Prime Minister Valdemaras...