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...Gloucester draft board on September 5 protested in a later to Senators Salton-stall and Lodge that it was being forced to administer "a rich man's law which is grossly unfair to thousands of young men. We do not feel that just because an individual has money enough to go to graduate school that he should be continually defered...
...gimmick was not hard to find. The election commission was relegated to Item 3 on the proposed agenda. Items 1 and 2 would deal with the framing of the all-German government and the peace treaty. Thus, in a Panmunjom type of marathon, the Russian negotiators could haggle and stall endlessly over Items 1 and 2, meanwhile holding up the European Army...
...that the Russians are not ready to bargain. Some, like Britain's multiplying Bevanites and their Continental counterparts, still think there is a possibility of a deal with Russia that will relieve the allies of the oppressive stress & strains of rearmament. Others see it as a way to stall until the November elections show whether the next U.S. President will be a man who sticks in Europe or wants to withdraw...
Restaurants, pastry shops, even a nightclub or two were back in operation. Souvenir sellers were doing a land-office business with G.I. customers. Korean-made flags of the U.S. Confederacy made a brave display at one stall, alongside the flags of South Korea. Other Seoul factories were busily turning out soap, matches and rubber shoes-and cooking utensils made largely of aluminum salvaged from wrecked warplanes...
...official bulletin, announced by the BBC and newspaper extras, some at first refused to believe it. "After all," argued an indignant Londoner, "Mr. Churchill didn't announce it." "It can't be true," cried an old lady at the black banner headlines on a London news stall. "It can't be true...