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...Waldorf-Astoria suite 37 floors above Manhattan's Park Avenue, the foreign ministers of the three Western powers sat down this week to one of the most crucial conferences since V-J day. The issues before them girdled the globe. But the "major effort," Secretary of State Dean Acheson said as the conference began, centered on Western Europe...
...military advantage until she had more A-bombs to drop on the U.S. (see BACKGROUND FOR WAR). The strategists, who had understated Russian capabilities before, calculated that the West had approximately two years to finish the job which got under way this week high up in the Waldorf...
This week as the NATO ministers assembled at New York's Waldorf-Astoria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), France was still reluctant to face reality. The U.S. move to increase its ground forces in Germany by five or more divisions was "most pleasing" to Paris. But French Foreign Minister Maurice Schuman put in the inevitable French warning on German rearmament. He wanted any rearming of the West Germans to wait a while. Said Schuman: "There is an obvious desire for all to see a line of defense as far east as possible for Europe. But the Allies must have priority. When...
...fantasies as Last and First Men, Odd John, Sinus); of a coronary occlusion; in Cheshire, England. A longtime one-worlder, Stapledon achieved a measure of distinction in March 1949 as the only British delegate at the Communist-backed Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace* in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria...
Jacob Malik's dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria-the customary gesture of retiring Security Council presidents-seemed as interminable as the month he held the Council chair...