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...success of his mission now. The Congress leaders were willing to take office. The Moslem League would scarcely allow itself to be squeezed out of India's new government by the Congress ministers and nonLeague Moslems. This week, when the Simla conference convenes again, the prospects for settlement are bright...
...Procedures for the settlement of terminated contracts have become steadily more efficient [but] the most influential of all is the widespread confidence that, whatever the difficulties of the transition period may be, beyond it lies an unparalleled demand for peacetime goods. Manufacturers . . . will leave no stone unturned in the effort to get their share...
...ball will be holed when & if Russia. Britain, the U.S. and a respectable variety of Poles agree on a new Warsaw government. Invited to Moscow to begin new discussions this week were: ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, a key figure in any settlement, and two other London exiles (but no member of the unreconstructible exiled Government); Warsaw President Boleslaw Bierut and three members of his Government; five non-Government Poles from Poland. With the Russians, these men would try to find agreement among themselves, then submit the result to the Big Three's troubleshooters (Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman, British...
...Stalin made concessions. The most conspicuous, though perhaps not the biggest, was agreement on the Security Council veto issue (see The Conference). As Harry Hopkins, who had achieved the veto agreement, left Moscow for Berlin, reports circulated in Washington and Europe that he had also talked Stalin into a settlement of the Polish issue. Even if he had not, the reports themselves were evidence of a feeling that the clouds were lifting...
...four men-had picked the spot to hide in before the Philippines fell. With their fellow refugees, they had lived like natives, eating rice and bananas and sleeping in grass, huts with bamboo floors. Often, when the Japs were rumored to be advancing, they had hurriedly abandoned the little settlement and hid out in native huts or in foxholes until the scare passed. When the Japs finally did come to Hopevale, there was no warning...