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...called off a strike 15 minutes before Franklin Roosevelt went-on the air to make a personal plea to the miners to return. Last spring he had announced a truce three hours before he was due to answer a summons to the White House for a showdown with Harry Truman. Now-In the Basement. On Saturday afternoon Washington newsmen got a terse notice that Lewis would speak to them at U.M.W.'s massive headquarters (once the University Club) on 18th Street. The meeting was in the basement auditorium, the walls of which are covered with Lewis cartoons. There...
...chairman Clarence B. Randall, vice president of Inland Steel Co., plumping for outright repeal seemed just the sort of thing that had given N.A.M. a bad name in the past. N.A.M., said Randall, should be content to outline broad objectives, let Congress determine how to achieve them. In a showdown behind closed doors, Randall won easily...
...well aware of the uneasiness at home and the embarrassing abstention of nearly a third of Labor M.P.s on a vote for his support. Gossiped craggy W. J. Brown, Independent M.P. and regular London Evening Standard commentator: "When [Bevin] comes home he will insist on a showdown, probably by claiming a solid vote of confidence at a party meeting. This may easily precipitate another crisis. For the abstentionists, having condemned his foreign policy, can hardly vote for a motion of confidence...
This was the economic background of the battle which had moved into the courts when Lewis' chief antagonist arrived in Washington for the showdown...
...some degree, this strategy was basic in the United States' proposal for voluntary modification of the veto power. This country, with support from Britain and China, suggested that the large powers attempt to reconcile their differences privately before issues reached United Nations Security Council for a public showdown...