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Point of Rest. Whether the champagne was buoyant enough to lift agreement from the bog of stubborn deadlock, none knew at week's end. But the attitude of both U.S. and Russian delegates indicated that at Byrnes's private dinner U.S. policy was expressed more firmly than it had ever been before. In this lay such hope of agreement as there was. For the West at last realized that, if Hitler's repeated prediction of a deadly clash between the Eastern and Western allies was to be avoided, success would not come through appeasement of Russia...
...least officially) of fascists. Despite public political friendship, Figl does not get on well with Renner. Unlike Socialist Renner, who comes from a bourgeois family but has lived it down, Figl comes from peasant stock and tries to live up to it. He has a peasant's stubborn strength and stubborn limitations, along with the rural Austrian's strong belief in the efficacy of wine and prayer...
Spain was a test issue before the United Nations Security Council. Was Francisco Franco's regime a potential threat to world peace? And, if so-as Australia's stubborn, logical Herbert Vere Evatt put it last week: what are we going to do about...
...year-old Leon Clausen, a big-boned man with a face that betrays his Danish descent. Clausen beat his way from a Wisconsin farm to the presidency of J. I. Case Co., manufacturer of farm implements. His habitat is Racine, Wis., where he is distinguished by stubborn Republicanism, civic philanthropies and firm opinions, openly expressed. It was not unusual to see him last week in a curbstone argument over the British loan (which he deplores) with Case workers who happened to be there, picketing his plant...
...Washington a Senator who had once been a judge reminisced of his days on the bench, when he had frequently taken two stubborn contestants into chambers and talked them into a sensible agreement. "It wasn't because it was I who did it," he said. "It was the power and prestige of the court, and the willingness of the court to speak firmly and reasonably...