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...impossible for anyone to reach a settlement with the Communists...
Union leaders heard that Gallagher was about to render a rather favorable decision. That would never do. The union's Communist leadership had been losing ground with the non-Communist rank & file. A peaceful settlement might undermine the militancy of the miners-and their leaders' position. They threatened to strike unless Gallagher granted all their demands. Considering this threat to be blackmail, Gallagher refused to hand down any decision until the strike threat was withdrawn...
...letter, to be read from Catholic pulpits throughout the country. In it, he summarized the successive steps the Czech Communist government has taken to gain control of the church and its schools, rejected the charges leveled at the church hierarchy, pointed out that "the issue does not concern a settlement between church and state ... It is an issue of ... replacing Christianity by Marxism, which assumes for the state the rights in matters of conscience, faith and morals -something no Christian can accept...
...seven weeks, a U.N. Palestine Conciliation Commission had sat in Lausanne, Switzerland, trying to hammer out a final peace settlement between Israel and the Arabs. It had been a strange sort of conference, in which none of the disputants on one side would speak to anyone on the other. Under the circumstances, it was hardly surprising that the conference had made little or no progress...
...President, is the problem of Arab refugees, who have been scrabbling out piecemeal existences in the impoverished Arab states around Israel ever since the British mandate ended 13 months ago. At Lausanne, representatives from four Arab states (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt) steadfastly refused to discuss a final peace settlement until Israel agreed to accept a large proportion of the Arab refugees. The Israelis resisted all attempts to get them to take back the refugees, finally offered a compromise under which they would accept 230,000 of them provided Egypt would cede the narrow 25-mile-long coastal area around...