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...your Dec. 29 issue you mention the 16 European nations participating in the Marshall Plan . . . and you begin your enumeration with "Australia." . . . The actual participant in question is 971 years old and was already quite civilized when Australia was not even a convict settlement. . . . The country, sir, is the romantic little Republic of Austria. . . . MICHAEL HAMMER Berkeley, Calif...
...most disquieting news from India today," cried he, "is the fast which Mahatma Gandhi has entered. I wish we could notify him as soon as possible of a settlement between the two Dominions." Much affected, the Council decided to meet as often as possible until a solution was reached. Then they went to lunch. Next day, Pakistan's crescent-bearded Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, replied to the Indian. For 3¼ hours (breaking Andrei Vishinsky's U.N. record of two hours), he spoke without script, working only from notes passed up on an assembly-line basis...
...different between this and other United Nations problems is that the two opponents evidently have the authority to arrange a settlement by arbitration, and the will to do so. This left little for the Security Council to do but give them the opportunity to work out their own solution...
...night on the radio, the Secretary did a schoolmasterly job of detailing for the U.S. people the reasons for the breakup of the Foreign Ministers' Conference (TIME, Dec. 22). He made it clear to the nation that there is little hope in the immediate future of reaching a settlement with Russia on peace terms in Europe. Coldly and cautiously, George Marshall warned of long and difficult months ahead. Said...
...Soviet Union has recognized the situation in its frank declaration of hostility and opposition to the European recovery program. . . . The issue is really clear cut, and I fear there can be no settlement until the coming months demonstrate whether or not the civilization of Western Europe will prove vigorous enough to rise . . . and restore a healthy society. Officials of the Soviet Union and leaders of the Communist Parties openly predict that this restoration will not take place. We . . . are confident in the rehabilitation of Western European civilization with its freedoms...