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...Council, rather than the Assembly, should have "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security." The Council may (not must) "investigate any dispute, or any situation which may lead to international friction"; but all members promise to seek a solution of disputes through negotiation, mediation, judicial settlement, or ''other peaceful means." The main job of the Council is to press the parties to settle disputes by themselves. Only in the event of failure does the Security Council swing into action...
...Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus!" Inhabitants of the haughty International Settlement regarded the Mission area at South Gate as a cross between the frontier and a zoo. The so-called "honey-boats" drifted slowly down the neighboring canal, carrying Shanghai's human excrement to the truck farms. The dusty road was always filled with grunting pigs on their way to slaughter. Under the willow trees old Chinese lay dozing, waiting for their daily lunch of sparrows to get stuck on the bird-limed twigs...
Then in stepped Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins as a mediator. In a new black grosgrain hat, a long black coat, a mink neckpiece and with a new sparkle in her eye, she appeared before the perspiring negotiators, suggested a compromise settlement. She almost got it. John Lewis accepted; the operators' spokesman, Charles O'Neill, balked...
Healthy Failure? Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill were doing none too well among themselves. On the most troublesome issue up for immediate Big Three settlement, they and their respective spokesmen had deadlocked...
...parts manufacturer, inventor of the first practical self-starter (1912), founder of Bendix Aviation Corp., president of Bendix Helicopter, Inc. (planning postwar mass production of four-passenger helicopter sedans); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. Despite the vast success of his companies, personal reverses (real-estate projects, a whopping divorce settlement) sent him into bankruptcy...