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After a tour of the campus (during which guides discreetly said little about the mementos of a 1777 Anglo-American meeting at Princeton), they settled down to the first of four two-hour conferences in a room which used to be the office of Princeton's President Woodrow Wilson...
...encourage a different approach to the security problem, namely, through the creation of a series of pooled-power centers in various parts of the world-joint bases and United Nations forces, consisting of units of the Big Three and other powers, which would act as a stabilizing factor. An Anglo-American agreement might well continue the combined military staffs and pool British and American bases in every part of the world, for 20 years, say, after...
...centuries after the birth of Christ, an Anglo-Saxon invader named Leaxa settled in the Midlands of ancient Britain. His settlement was named Laxton, or Lexington-"the place of Leaxa's men." More than a thousand years later, men carried this already hoary name to the colony of Massachusetts where, one morning in 1775, it suddenly became historic. The name & fame of Lexington spread like wildfire through the colonies, until at last it even reached a lonely hunting camp far beyond the Cumberland Gap. "Let us call this place Lexington," said one of the hunters admiringly. And so they...
...Anglo-U.S. heavy bomber forces searched the remnants of the Reich for targets last week, and found moderately good hunting: rail yards, airfields, oil and ordnance depots, an explosives plant, shipyards and shipping, U-boat pens. One day when U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters attacked airfields in the Berlin area, the Luftwaffe reacted violently, sending up the biggest swarms of jet planes the Americans had ever seen. All over the blue sky, twisting white vapor trails mingled with the black streaks of burning, falling planes...
...subjects that divide Christendom, one of the most divisive is church unity. Two months ago, John D. Rockefeller Jr. made a well-intentioned plea for church unity (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week, as it must to all such pleas, came a stern rebuke. "Shocking," said Long Island's Anglo-Catholic (high church) Protestant Episcopal Bishop James P. De Wolfe, ". . . and contrary to the doctrine of the Church...