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...last week, the fear of a new wave of inflation from the coal wage pact became great enough to bring a special plea from President Truman to businessmen. He asked industrialists to withhold immediate increases in the price of coal and in the price of steel, "until the actual increases in costs are determined. It is only reasonable," said he, "to ask coal and steel producers to wait until a fair test has been made...
...last week the U.S. and a majority of the Latin American republics had decided to withhold recognition of Nicaragua. Among the non-recognitionists were such distant countries as Chile and Peru, which might well have taken the position that it was not their bull that was being gored...
...underlined the advice in Ecclcsiasics, "He that observeth the wind shall now; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. In the morning sow seed and in the evening withhold not thine hand...
...Without Discrimination." One rule was firm: the U.S. would not withhold food from any peoples who were starving -not even the enemies of democracy. But, by the same token, nondemocratic nations drawing U.S. relief would not be allowed to starve the friends of democracy. Distribution must be "without discrimination as to race, creed or political belief...
...seclusion of his palace last week to attend a requiem service at the Metropolis Cathedral for a distant relative, Sweden's Prince Gustaf Adolf (recently killed in an airplane crash), the crowd lining University Boulevard neither cheered nor booed; they clapped politely. The people were still willing to withhold their judgment on their King-but not for much longer. Said one Athenian indifferently as the King's grey-green Rolls-Royce passed by: "Oh, I suppose he will go to England after the next plebiscite...