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...cold, tough winter. Reason: the coal strike in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS). Said Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe: "The Canadian position will be very serious. . . . I am much more alarmed . . . than I was at any time during the war." Two days later the truce in the strike was reached. But even a final settlement would not mean coal for Canada right away. U.S. bins would probably have to be filled first...
West Point, peaceful enough since the truce with the British in 1780, was in the front line again. This time the conflict was over West Point's government-owned cache of 225 million oz. of unpledged silver. The opponents: U.S. manufacturers v. the Silver bloc...
...show by proclaiming the end of a strike 15 minutes before Roosevelt went on the air to castigate him, he now spoiled Harry Truman's show. Three hours before he was due at the White House, he ordered his miners back to work-not permanently, but for a truce of twelve days...
...There never was a time when breathing space was more needed, a blessed convalescence, a truce of God and man." But, he said, "this is a time when hatred is rife in the world, when many branches of the human family, victors or vanquished, innocent or guilty, are plunged in bewilderment, distress or ruin. The world is very ill. . . . Mankind cannot in its present plight bear new shocks without descending to altogether cruder and primordial forms...
...Government and the Reds reached a new accord, what was to prevent the Reds from violating that too, creating another "changed situation" and demanding a still higher price for the peace China needs? Said a high Government official: "[The Communists] want us to agree to an unconditional truce, because this would legalize their attempt to overthrow the [military] agreement...