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...Four were the boss, they reasoned, and the way to recognize that fact was by a Big Four presidium which would confine effective discussion to the controlling powers. The Russians never gave up on this issue. But, thanks to Ed Stettinius, Senator Vandenberg and such little-nation spokesmen as Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, they never...
Australia's Herbert Vere Evatt still clamored that the Big Five had "steamrollered" the veto issue. But Big Power spokesmen pointed out that five out of the six small nations on the Council could exercise a veto, too-if they stood together...
Last week the possibility of World War III was more & more in the horrified world's public eye. That there were those who looked upon war between the democratic, capitalist U.S. and authoritarian, Communist Russia as "inevitable" was no longer news. The news was the extraordinary number of spokesmen in both countries who, admitting the profound differences between them, insisted that war was repressible...
Before their approving headmen two Paramount Chiefs-Nana Atta Agyeman IV of Sefwi Bekwai and Nana Kwami Nkua II of Sefwi Wiawso-joined hands in ostentatious amity. For the occasion both wore richly colored robes with gold crowns on their heads. Spokesmen for the two tribes invoked the spirits of departed Bekwai and Wiawso chiefs to tell them they were now as one. In turn the living chiefs blessed the new union...
Russian commentators hastened to say that the new government was formed within the framework of the Big Three's 1943 Declaration on Austria. U.S., British and Russian Foreign Ministers had agreed that Austria "shall be liberated from German domination" and made "free and independent" again. But Soviet spokesmen said nothing of a Big Three understanding that Austria would be administered by a U.S.British-Russian Commission until her future was determined...