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Sifting the evidence in favor of the immediate settlement of the Italian problem, Salvemini pointed out that "the harvest this fall has been the worst in 40 years." "Unemployment is widespread, too," he continued, "and the reviving of industry must be accomplished soon." If the general situation in Italy is not corrected, he argued, then "we can expect trouble from Italy in the future...
First Choice. One of Harrison's main objects had been to discover possible places of settlement for Jews. His finding: Palestine is "definitely and preeminently" the first choice. His recommendation: admit Jewish D.P.s to Palestine without delay...
...truck plant shut down, laying off 2,200; 800 others for whom there was work found pickets on duty when they arrived at the plant. The 800 did not work. Neither did 50,000 workers shut out of Ford plants because of a continuing strike-which defied even U.A.W. settlement efforts-at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel...
Chink in the Door. Next afternoon the Committee resumed its work. It castigated the new India plan as "vague, inadequate and unsatisfactory." At the same time it left the door to settlement open a chink by agreeing to contest the coming elections and negotiate with the British Government. On the prickly problem of Pakistan (a separate Moslem State) the Working Committee had already hedged: Congress would oppose partition, but, if unsuccessful, it would not compel seceding Moslems to stay inside a Hindu India. From the Moslem League and its canny, cagey president, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, came no comment...
...carried out only if Germany was one administrative unit. And all this had to be accomplished by the economic opposites of east and west. Already the pressure to reduce the U.S. occupation armies (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was seriously hampering General Eisenhower. Predicted Britain's Economist: "The Potsdam settlement will not last ten years, and when it breaks down there will be nothing but the razor-edge balance of international anarchy between civilization and the atomic bomb...