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...Thirteen of the 16 nations (all except Norway, Sweden and Switzerland) announced that they would discuss a European customs union. Top U.S. officials were even more interested in a program that would inspire Western Europe to work for itself than in the amount of help the U.S. would be asked to deliver...
...year (1900) when Lenin founded his first illegal news paper, Zaslavsky, too, had become a revolutionary. But he chose to join the Jewish General Social-Democratic Union - known as the Jewish Bund. Though both re mained revolutionaries, from 1903 onward he opposed Lenin's methods. In 1917, thirteen days after Lenin's seizure of power, Zaslavsky's opposition twanged toward its angriest pitch : "Lenin has taken power to become the genuine autocrat of Russia. ... So far only the bourgeois press has been extinguished. . . ." Twenty-one days later: "In Petrograd the Bolsheviks are closing up the press with...
...Thirteen men who had spent three years and $215,000 studying the freedom of the U.S. press reported in March that...
...They had thirteen thousand people out front watching. They nearly went crazy when Eisenhower and the rest walked...
Somewhat obscured by the cross fire over the delegate posts has been the contest for the thirteen executive committee posts. Unopposed for chapter chairman is Stanley G. Karson '48, present head of the National Affairs Committee...