Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State Marshall and other prominent men stumbling all over themselves to get on the right side of Spain's midget despot, General Francisco Franco. The new love affair was concentrated power politics. Franco wanted readmission to the family of nations. He offered the United States access to the vital Spanish Peninsula and the use of his Moorish troops in return. While the deal is strategically unassailable, it is morally indefensible, for no two nations on the face of the earth are so diametrically opposed as Spain and the United States...
...Eire, trees are grown on only 1.6% of the land. Eire is, indeed, the most treeless country of Europe. Why? To a Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech in favor of trees, or any having access to an ax who did not cut down all the trees within his reach...
With shouts of triumph, the delegates endorsed a "Declaration of Principles." It condemned "this infamous and iniquitous program [of] equal access to all places of public accommodation for persons of all races, colors, creeds and national origin." Then they nominated South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond for President and Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright for Vice President...
After the Supermanic. British newsreels will have access to 50 reels of black & white which Rank will shoot alongside the color. Price: ?2,000 per company, plus the loan of some cameramen. U.S. newsreels, as usual, will get their coverage by swapping equal footage on other subjects. British Movietonews executives now feel: "It could be worse. We're satisfied we'll get a fair break." British Paramount still feels bitterly against the Olympic Association for peddling an exclusive in the first place, but thinks Rank's arrangements are "very adequate." The Association, with 25% of its costs...
Categoric Assertion. Notes of protest handed last week to Soviet ambassadors in Washington, London and Paris were about as strong as diplomatic notes can be. Said the U.S. note: "The U.S. Government categorically asserts that it is in occupation of its sector in Berlin with free access thereto as a matter of established right ... It will not be induced by threats, pressures or other actions to abandon these rights . . . The U.S. Government is therefore obliged to insist that . . . traffic between the Western zones and Berlin be fully restored. There can be no question of delay...