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...dump as a single package on Harry Truman's desk. If the President vetoed it, that would be all right with Bob Taft. He knew what he wanted and he was all for putting Harry Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing the harshest proposals, try to win public support by approving the mildest...
David Kligler '47 was elected Treasurer of the organization while Robert A. Levine '50 will head the Political Action Committee and Geoffrey W. White '48, the Harvard Affairs Committee. All won contested elections. White's election was the only one which ran along the lines of the recent HLU split on whether liberals can work with Communists...
...United States and Russia can resolve their differences by cooperation, but the record of proceedings at the Moscow Conference makes it plain the Soviet leaders expect that the United States will eventually do most of the "cooperating." Both Secretary Marshall and Mr. Dulles report that the Four Power conclave split up over the failure of the two major participants to reach even the most limited agreement on key provisons of the German treaty...
...record in London that it would not be bound by any U.N. solution which it could not approve. The Arab delegates wanted a wide-open discussion and an end to Britain's mandate. The Jews, with a golden opportunity to present their case to the world, were split into rival groups, each demanding to be Jewry's voice before the Assembly. (The Jewish Agency, principal champion of Jewish rights in the Holy Land, refused to be mere observers at the session; its spokesmen stayed away pending decision on their request to be treated as a voteless delegation...
...Palestine last week a bomb split the Egypt-Palestine night express train, carrying about 500 British troops. The dead: five British soldiers, three civilians. Near Tel-Aviv a van loaded with explosive blew up near a police billet: four British were killed. In Haifa, terrorists assassinated A. E. Conquest, chief of the British Criminal Investigation Department in northern Palestine...