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week end, from 6 p. nv, local time Wednesday until Sunday mid night. reached 406. This was 31 above the previous holiday record high of 375, set the preceding year. WE D BE MAI LED GEN. RIDGWAY SAID Gen. Matthew Rldgway said this week the West's 16 divisions in Germany would not be defeat ed In a sudden Russian attack but "would suffer grievous blows." He earlier told Noith Atlantic Treaty officials he did not yet have enough force at hand to assure the defense of Western Europe. He repeated that assertion by declaring that the strength and training of the forces under him is "not satisfactory in the ight o. the mission assigned to me and iii view of the accepted estimates of the enemy's capacities.” SEE ENGLISH-IRAN OIL DISPUTE EASED For t lie fust time ui many months United States officials arc cautiously hopeful of an early settlement of the English-Iran ian oil dispute. Iran's Premier Mohammed Mosscdegh is report ed to have taken a "very -eason able" attitude in thicc co.ivcrsa tions with United States Ambas sador Loy Henderson at Tehran during the past two weeks. Iran broke off regular diplo matic relations with Britain last fall and thereby made the in direct contact necessary.
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