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...days the United Nations turned a blueprint into a going concern. Fifty-one nations, spanning the gamut of race, color, language and tradition, had to concur. They did-with ultimate unanimity. How long and with what travail would it have taken Congress to complete a comparable task...
...Travail. That Mikolajczyk and the Western democracy he represents have survived the shock of war and revolution is another testimonial to Poland's national stamina. Once Poland was the mightiest nation of eastern Europe. Jan Karol Chodkiewicz's fearsome Winged Hussars (see cut) defeated the Turks at Chocim in 1621, and 62 years later Jan Sobieski beat them back from Vienna. The Polish military tradition still burns bright; World War II's Warsaw and Monte Cassino will be remembered. And yet, as Poland under her conquerors has gone from disaster to disaster, the tradition of struggle...
...drug addiction rates, was dead wrong about the Gulistan Palace. While sympathizing with the young Shah's difficulties, both public and personal, TIME believes its information on them may be more up-to-date than Mr. Pope's. TIME hopes that Iran will triumphantly survive its current travail, resume its "constructive and precious contributions to world civilization" too long suspended...
Neutral Ground. Harry Truman was now hell-bent to prevent the first travail. Just the day before, Murray and Fairless had broken up a fruitless two-day conference in U.S. Steel's Manhattan headquarters at 71 Broadway. They had come closer together than ever before, but not close enough. Phil Murray, who had originally demanded a flat raise of $2 a day, or 25? an hour, had backed down to 19½?. Ben Fairless, who had not made any offer before, had shown willingness...
Despite labor pains, strikes and the travail of reconversion, the U.S. is already close to full employment in peacetime-months faster than anyone expected. This encouraging announcement was made by the Committee for Economic Development last week...