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Second Best. On its face the official statement scarcely bore out St. Laurent's enthusiasm. Still missing was the formal presidential agreement which Canada needs before she can alter the levels of U.S.-Canadian boundary waters. But the communique did contain one meaningful commitment: "The President would support the Canadian action as second best if an early commencement of the joint development does not prove possible...
Colegrove made no attempt to alter his stand about John K. Fairbank, professor of History, and Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages...
...conference adopted the Sub-Commission method of listing separately the types of utterances which a nation might punish without violating the Covenant. It preserved the seven specific limitations (such as 'expressions which incite persons to alter by violence the system of government'), and added an eighth--the so-called Indian amendment-which gave an option to pass laws against 'the systematic diffusion of deliberately false or distorted reports which undermine friendly relations between peoples and States'. For this there is no counter part in the United States, and the amendment was opposed by the American delegate in the Legal Committee...
...cash supposedly on hand: $719,000. They counted the money and found only $119,000. But they could not discover why Schlekat had stolen $600,000. There was no woman in the case, no racetrack gambling, no wild parties. Then the bank's former president, Charles C. Alter, described his own retirement to the examiners. A New Kensington real-estate man (now dead) had approached him four years ago on behalf of two "Ohio businessmen," H. A. McDevitt and J. H. McKeown, and offered $254,000 for 540 shares of the bank's 750 shares of stock...
...mission is to alter the thinking on foreign policy so that a realistic negotiated settlement will be possible with Russia. He is tired of the United States embarking on policies that are impossible to carry...