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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington there was still sharp disagreement. The Administration had not yet denned the point at which the U.S. might have to use force or watch all its policies go down the drain. The military had. They argued that the U.S. should draw a definite line, to be defended with troops, guns and planes, and flatly warn the Soviet Union that it would cross that line at its peril. The risks were obvious. And what if the Soviet forces never stepped across the line but simply outflanked it, as in Czechoslovakia...
...Aren't Czechs." If the Finns prove stiffnecked, the Soviet chiefs will have to decide whether to use direct high-pressure methods or try to take over the country with an inside job. Finland has no real defense against direct pressure, but might try an open appeal to the U.N. If an inside job is to be tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said...
Until last week, however, the West made little serious effort to use the Ruhr for what it was-the key to Europe's recovery, the key to control of Europe. First the British alone occupied it, although they did not have the resources needed to get it going again. Then it was brought into the joint U.S.-British economic administration called Bizonia. The French refused to enter any arrangements for the rehabilitation of the Ruhr, because they wanted assurance that the area would be separated from Germany and placed under international political control. Britain and the U.S. knew that...
Biggest attraction in the masculine Merry Mite clothes is the tricky use of seams, suspenders and tabs (see cut), which allow them to be let out easily so the clothes can "grow" with the wearer (e.g., pleated "sesame seams" on shirts, running from front to back, can be sheared open to make the shirt larger and sleeves longer). The clothes are more expensive (10 to 20%) than other children's clothes. But Designer Geissmann figures that their trim appearance and longer usefulness make them worth...
Reactor. Industrial use of atomic energy is 20 years away, said Dr. Lyle B. Borst, boss of the Government's atomic project at Brookhaven, Long Island...