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...British oil concessions. Nobody paid much attention to the threats, but they reflected rising Arab tempers. If there is trouble, the Jews will fight back. Now being demobilized in Europe, veterans of the war-wise Jewish Brigade are coming home to Palestine (see cut); 23,000 armed Jewish settlement police are already on the spot...
...railway system, a solution was proposed by Chungking's Information Minister K. C. Wu: 1) the Communists should withdraw from the railways; 2 ) the Central Government would accept their local administration beyond the right of way, pending a final political solution. Yenan answered: "Until a political settlement is reached, occupation of railways is dangerous...
...founded his diplomatic reputation on his settlement of the Chaco war (1932-35) between Paraguay and Bolivia. After three years of feckless negotiations, Braden took to the radio, bluntly addressed the Paraguayan and Bolivian people over the delegates' heads. A settlement followed quickly...
John T. Dunlop, associate professor of Economics here and former member of the W.L.B., described three possible answers to the problem: first, that the conflict can only be resolved at the expense of the public interest; second, that there can be no settlement, only a slugfest; and third, that the conflict can be resolved only if strong and stifling legislation is passed...
West Pubnico was founded in 1651 by a blue-blooded Frenchman named Sieur Philippe d'Entremont. Because he was the Baron de Pombcoup, his settlement was known first as Pombcoup, then (by the Indians) as Pobomcook, finally (by latter-day Canadians) as Pubnico. Today 675 Pubniconians are d'Entremonts. The others are Leblancs, d'Eons, Sureties and Amiraults, who have married into the family. The only four "outsiders" in the village: Fish Processor Charles Munro, who moved in from nearby Shelburne five years ago, his wife and two children...