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Differences must be met by "conciliation and not a yielding by one state to the arbitrary will of the other," said Secretary of State Byrnes in his recapitulation of the Paris Peace Conference. In time perhaps, the harshly discordant tone of West-15, East-6, which marked every refrain at the Conference, will become a sonorous harmony. The proposal by Australia and Cuba to eliminate the veto power of the Big Five on the Security council, the question of an International Refugee Organization, and the Russian plan for the dissemination of information on the armed forces of member nations...
...Contrary to the impression given by Col, Neville," says Aldrich, "I believe that the majority of officers in the Army made a conscientious and largely successful effort to insure a fair distribution of PX supplies, to refrain from monopolizing the USO queens, to spare their men from standing in long lines, and to get them out of trouble when it was necessary...
...psychologist, I cannot refrain from commenting upon "The Carrot and the Stick," the article from the London Economist which you quote approvingly (TIME, July 15) as "some simple, understandable words to the British people...
...Commission on Colonials and Imperialism: That the IUS (1) Ask the U. S. to remove troops from China; and (2) That troops (a) should be withdrawn from countries where they are being held for political purposes, and (b) should refrain from political activity in countries where they are being held for other reasons...
...seems true, as you say, that most people will never understand more about Relativity than is told by the limerick quoted in the Einstein article [TIME, July 1]. It is not true, however, that the author will refrain from turning over in his grave should you continue to misquote...