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TIME, June 10: "The Socialists' setback [in the French elections] would undoubtedly have been worse if their Elder Statesman Leon Blum had not dashed in, like the Texas Rangers, three days before election, with a $1,400,000 U.S. loan...
Temporary Embarrassment. In the Azores, the U.S. had another setback. Portugal's Dictator-Premier Salazar had been ready to sign a far-reaching agreement, but premature publicity embarrassed both him and the State Department. Last week Secretary Byrnes announced that the U.S.-built air base on Santa Maria island was being turned back to Portugal for peaceful development. The U.S. got a sop: temporary (18 months) transit rights. The State Department could base a hope on the French adage: "Nothing endures as long as the temporary...
...been struggling to keep movies out of the clutches of local censors. The Hays-Johnston organization, Hollywood's chief effort to mind its own morals, costs the studios a sizable (and secret) amount of money every year. Last week the long, costly struggle was getting a serious setback...
Despite such disputes, the Ministers ended the week more cheerfully than they began-at a ball with handsome, young King Sianouk of Cambodia, while Parisians danced in the streets outside. Molotov's new mildness might be intended to help Europe's Communists after their setback in the French elections. But whatever the reason, the Four had danced through so many little difficulties in a week that they could once more tackle a really tough number: Trieste...
...statement of U.S. policy this could scarcely be improved upon; the job was to translate the policy into practical terms affecting specific issues such as Palestine, oil, the Dardanelles, economic development in India, the Chinese loan. No setback for Russia in U.N.'s Security Council would stick unless the U.S. took the lead in solving pressing economic, social and political problems in the immense areas of the world where the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. compete for influence...