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...future, the Soviets may make legitimate movements toward the settlement of international disputes. They may work honestly to effect a Truman-Stalin meeting without ballyhoo and propagandizing motives. This would be an excellent beginning to East-West agreements, and it must be earnestly followed up by Washington. But even this could not solve the world's troubles. There can be no side-sweeping Truman-Stalin "deals." Only a concert of Western powers can bargain with Russia. If Truman and Stalin tried to compromise their way to a more comfortable "peace," the patient work of the North Atlantic group of powers...
This does not, of course, mean that Russian-American meetings would be worthless, or that important agreements could not come out of them. But such meetings cannot take place until the Russians quit stalling and playing politics with the world's desperate desire for an international settlement. All the evidence concerning the recent Stalin affair shows that the Russians are not ready for serious conferences at this time. Stalin's statement was purely for publicity purposes, and it's surprising that so many Americans fall...
...Liberal Union threatened yesterday to take court action against the University Theater for interfering with the HLU Film Series. However, the executive committee voted to attempt a private settlement before starting litigation...
...settlement was to everybody's advantage. The seven executives who had inherited the paper from "Cissy" Patterson did not want their new regime hamstrung by months of legal wrangling. Countess Gizycka did not relish the unsavory process of trying to prove that her mother had not been of sound mind when she willed the paper to her top men. Under reported terms of the settlement Cissy Patterson's daughter will get no share of the Times-Herald, but she will get the mother's Long Island home and other personal property left her under the will...
...immediate goal of the Plymouth citizens is to have a scale model of the first settlement ready for exhibition by May 30. The finished reproduction will be on the line of the restoration of colonial Williamsburg in Virginia...