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Officially, Sir Archibald's mission will be "to help in the attainment of an amicable . . . settlement" between the squabbling Dutch and Indonesians. Unofficially, his ticklish task will be to extricate Britain soon from an imperial mess. For services rendered and expected, he was raised to the peerage this week...
City of Pluto. The original pile at Chicago had been a ticklish business, but the giant piles at Hanford were studies in unexplored dangers. Theory warned that as soon as they started working, they would generate floods of deadly radiation and produce unknown radioactive elements, most of them fiendishly poisonous: These effects could conceivably be so powerful and so long-lasting that no living thing could approach a pile which had once been in operation...
...policymaker, he has been in ticklish spots before, has never distinguished himself but has kept out of trouble. He was in Belgrade when the Germans strode in. While he did not spot in advance the rise of Marshal Tito, he had the sagacity to back youthful King Peter in the uprising against the discredited regent, Prince Paul. Before and after Belgrade, he represented the U.S. in South America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, etc.). He speaks Spanish and French, no Polish...
...protected what we needed to protect. Holding the colonies and India will be difficult, but the charter does not make it more difficult. The trusteeships section was a ticklish business, but we got through it with no more than the verbal thrashing the Russians gave...
...Paper Two." This document sets up a Preparatory Commission, which will attend to certain necessary housekeeping chores. Somebody has to negotiate with the old League of Nations to take over files, functions. and probably some employes. A budget for the new organization must be worked out. And the ticklish question of a permanent seat must be settled. Geneva and The Hague appeared to be out of the running-too many ghosts there. Among the other possibilities: Prague, Oslo, Vancouver, San Francisco. Philadelphia...