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37. The meeting was understood to have taken place at the ambassadors’ request. 38. The meeting, which lasted just over half an hour, is understood to have taken place at the Prime Minister's request. 39. Moves are understood to be afoot in the West of Scotland company bus garages for a mass meeting on the issue. 40. So far the Prime Minister is said to have achieved half a success only. He has shown that he wants to save the pound, but the international financial community is not sure that he can. 41. Sir B.'s experience fit him for the Lords, and he is said to have recovered sufficiently to play a full role there. The strain of life in the Commons is an entirely different matter. 42. U.S. officials were said to consider that uncertainty was bound to continue unless some drastic measures were taken. 43. Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, may be said to have been the birthplace of the first properly organized attempt at a general system of academic instruction in Japan. 44. The police arrested a man who is stated to have been trying to sell the miniature and is said to have confessed to having stolen it. He is stated to have kept it for more than two years in the hope that the theft would be forgotten. 45. His detention without trial is claimed to have been a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights. 46. They were supposed to come under the command of the Governor — but it has already been shown how ready they were to defy the Governor and the British Government when it suits them. 47. The experts were felt to have little hope of reducing the differences even if an attempt were made to bring the two parties together. 40
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