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...eared copy of the one-page North Korea Communist mouthpiece Chawng Lo (Right Way) turned up in the U.S. zone last week. From it, South Koreans, eager for news of their northern countrymen, learned of a two-day meeting in P'yongyang to plan a provisional government for the Soviet-occupied area. The self-government murmurs had strong overtones of the Internationale...
Neutral Ground. Harry Truman was now hell-bent to prevent the first travail. Just the day before, Murray and Fairless had broken up a fruitless two-day conference in U.S. Steel's Manhattan headquarters at 71 Broadway. They had come closer together than ever before, but not close enough. Phil Murray, who had originally demanded a flat raise of $2 a day, or 25? an hour, had backed down to 19½?. Ben Fairless, who had not made any offer before, had shown willingness...
...Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America produced a new candidate for Dr. Mott's file by approving a statement prepared by its Commission on a Just and Durable Peace. The statement, drafted by Commission Chairman Dr. John Foster Dulles and polished by members at a two-day session in Philadelphia, summarizes the Commission's postwar program. Entitled "Christian Action on Four Fronts for Peace," its sound, pious exhortations included these highlights: ^ "We have what may be mankind's last chance. With the development of atomic power . . . the prevention of war is now the issue which...
...triumph into New York Harbor. Cuba had been liberated; the Philippines had been seized. The U.S. had ended its isolation from the world and become a great naval power. Thanks were due to Admiral George Dewey-in whose honor New York City decorated its buildings and declared a two-day holiday-and to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt of the Rough Riders, who had fought horse, foot and dragoon (as prewar Assistant Secretary) to modernize the Navy and make...
...last week Asahi got the toughest rapdown yet meted out to any Jap paper by General MacArthur: a two-day suspension. Reason: Asahi had darkly suggested that "some people think [the] announcement of Japanese atrocities may be timed to offset the news about outrages committed by some American soldiers in Japan " (Japs have accused G.I.s of rape.) Next day MacArthur suspended for one day the English-language Nippon-Times...