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...postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain calm." Late into the night dense crowds surged through the streets, shouting confused slogans...
...partition. Arabia and the desert countries of the Middle East have always been of vital concern to an oil-conscious U. S. Although American oil reserves are immense, comprising thirty percent of the known supplies, the U. S. refines over sixty percent of the world's petroleum and cannot maintain this uneven balance indefinitely. With fewer new fields coming in each year, the oil market will shift away from the United States in two decades unless the on companies are permitted to exploit undeveloped fields in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia...
...companies argue that Ibn Saud and the lesser sheiks must be placated at all costs if America is to maintain its dominant position in the petroleum industry and they their profits. They add that any Yankeephobia among the nomads would invite Russian expansion into this American preserve...
...work of the Club was so successful in this period that Radcliffe decided to maintain activity for the University. "Now we have the most talented bunch of musicians we've ever had," enthused Fine. The group decided to become more active after that, forming its own chamber orchestra, and now occupies a place distinct from the Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality...
Noel cited "the spectacle of separate national entitles each thinking to realize its own private national ambition, each desperate to maintain its own national powers or prestige, while in reality everyone harbors and cannot put in abeyance the game basic verso...