Word: broached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koreans, oppressed for the last 40 years by Japanese masters, although they conducted an underground government aimed at the sabotage of Nipponese imperialism and have assisted the American occupation for as long as they could conscientiously believe in it, still are given a polite brushoff whenever they broach the matter of entry into...
...Robert A. Lovett now feels that there is another pertinent way of telling the U.S. story. That, he said, would be the delivery by air to Europe of U.S. newspapers and magazines. In a letter to Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley (one of a number of Congressmen to broach the scheme), Lovett said that the department would ask Congress for funds to finance such a project...
Ames' purpose in going to Washington was to broach the plan to the Chief Executive and Lord Halifax, both of whom, Ames said, "were extremely interested in the plan." Ames added, however, that the drive was being conducted, not so much because the people who would benefit by it are British but because of the great civilian distress being caused...