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Show FLARE UPS AT CONFERENCE WERE VERY FEW Writing from San Francisco where the United Nations conference confer-ence has just weathered another "crisis," Anne O'are McCormick says that "though reports of the conclave sounded as if it were a series of crises, actually the flare-ups flare-ups were very few." The New York Times writer explains that "the impression of successive rises is partly due to the presence in San Francisco of many reporters and quite as many delegates without previous experience experi-ence in international conventions." Referring to the reporters, she writes : "Finding it hard at best to drum up daily interest . . . the reporters tend to exaggerate the tugs and pulls that are bound to develop in such meetings and to describe them in terms of real warfare as "victories' and 'retreats.' 're-treats.' . . . The result is a distorted dis-torted picture of what goes on. The truth is that there has been far more agreement than disagreement disagree-ment at San Francisco." While stated in milk-and-water terms, the lady journalit express- es condemnation of the worK of reporters, journalists, commentators commenta-tors and experts. |