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...German rallies have exploded almost nightly in the French-controlled, German-speaking industrial border basin of the Saar. They are a prelude to decision: next week the Saar's 960,000 citizens will freely vote, ja or nein, whether to accept the statute which French and German statesmen finally agreed on last year as the best means of taking a 1,000-year-old quarrel out of politics until a final World War II peace treaty is sealed. Should the Saarlanders vote ja, their borderland, which has changed hands four times in the last three European wars, would...
David A. Morse, director-general of the International Labor Organization, delivering the Gustav Pollak lecture last night in Littauer Auditorium, called ILO one of the organizations "which can accomplish the objective of all world statesmen, elimination of the seeds of unrest throughout the globe...
That evening messages from statesmen, sovereigns and people from all over the world cascaded into Lowry Air Force Base...
Beyond Geneva's widening circles of participants and counselors (700 in the four delegations) and observers (some 1,400 newsmen) lay the great waiting public itself, which had alternately had its hopes raised and its expectations dashed by statesmen who sometimes acted as if the public, left to its native good sense, could not be trusted to achieve the proper expression of mixed skepticism and hope. But the public was the Big Fifth at Geneva. In the preconference remarks of both the U.S.'s Eisenhower and Russia's Bulganin was an implied acknowledgment that the public expected...
News from a Broker. Bill W., a former Wall Street broker and surviving co-founder of A.A., argued that it was time for a permanent guiding body within the organization to take over from the elder statesmen, and the delegates agreed by ratifying a charter with a 15-member board of trustees. He also noted a switch in emphasis: now that its fame is widespread, A.A. gets more and more alcoholics (about half its new members) who have not yet sunk out of social respectability into Skid Row obscurity, who have had little or no experience with delirium, hospitals...