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...maintains its slippery foothold in Africa and the Middle East, there will be no power but Germany left in Continental Europe. Little imagination was needed, therefore, to foresee a Hitler peace drive if Russia is beaten-a peace drive ending, if Hitler has his way, in a 1941 Munich settlement...
Spasmodically for a century Peru and Ecuador have tried to reach a settlement of the dispute. They have put their problem to the King of Spain and to the President of the U.S. without satisfaction, between times developing short tempers and occasionally exchanging shots. The latest effort to end the dispute, through mediation by Argentina, Brazil and the U.S., ended last month when Peru refused to discuss the sovereignty of three of the four areas, claiming they were indisputably Peruvian...
There was no assurance that it would not flare up again. Both Governments were mad. Peru accused Ecuador of provoking an incident to force a settlement by the other American nations. Ecuador thought Peru was trying to settle the dispute by pure force. In Washington, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá diplomats hastened to proffer their good offices, hoping that at this time, of all times, the Americas would not get to fighting among themselves. But while statesmen took counsel together, 15,000 people marched through the streets of Quito, waving flags, stood bareheaded before the statue...
...agreement among employers and union leaders to a step-by-step program for settling strikes, and to a no-strike policy until every means of settlement has been exhausted...
...plant. Army officers had simply acted as "management agents" for the U.S. Government. Negotiations for increased wages had been resumed under the temporizing auspices of the National Defense Mediation Board, which this week gave the company an additional 24 hours in which to reply to a board proposal for settlement of the dispute...