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...Moslems and the most dangerous threat to Indian unity. He had repeatedly threatened that unless the Moslems were granted the separate state of Pakistan and complete independence from India's Hindu majority, he would sabotage all further negotiations, even if it meant civil war. After a three-hour conference, Jinnah was wan and grim, but he forced a tight-lipped smile for the photographers...
...prepared to answer as many as possible of your questions by first-hand reports. Information-expert Irene Burbank wore out two pairs of rationed shoes sightseeing every sight around New York herself. For example, she has taken the three-hour boat trip around Manhattan and can even tell you just how much poetic license was involved in describing the seats as "luxury liner deck chairs." She has also tested on her own palate and nerves the fare and entertainment of just about every eating place and night club in New York...
What anger and bitterness remained was spent by Montana's Burton K. Wheeler in a quarrelsome, three-hour speech about the peace. He grudgingly announced his intention to vote for the Charter, but he argued against most of its major premises. The "real fight," he promised, would come when legislation to implement U.S. participation reaches the Senate-perhaps not for more than a year. Then there would be a lot to say about Article 43 (which binds the U.S. and other participants to make armed forces available to fight aggression...
...Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Ohio's Harold Hitz Burton. Said Delegate-Senator Vandenberg last week: "This will not be the battle of the century." But he would oppose any clubbing of the Senate into approval. And last week when trim, grey Harold Burton delivered a scholarly, three-hour defense of San Francisco, only three Senators were present to hear...
Airmen firmly believe that this timetable, representing a cross-continent flight in the three-hour time difference between the coasts, will eventually be fact. But before it is, aeronautical engineers must learn much more than they now know about how air-and airplanes-behave at speeds up to and greater than the speed of sound (740 m.p.h.). The completion of three new laboratories for this study-three new $2,000,000-plus wind tunnels -was announced last week...