Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word indictment was familiar, but it was being presented formally for the first time at the bar of world opinion. Russia, said Tsiang, had systematically given military, economic, diplomatic and moral aid to the Chinese Communist rebels. It was thereby guilty of violating both its treaty of friendship with China and the U.N. Charter itself. "I know that the General Assembly has not a single rifle or a single plane," said Tsiang. "[But] it has at its disposal a great fund of moral power over the peoples of the world...
Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan, who wants more than anything else to win the friendship of U.S. farmers and thus influence U.S. elections, was beginning to find out that farmers are not easy to please. Ever since he offered his plan, which would promise fanners high selling prices and consumers cheaper food (TIME, April 18), Brannan's popularity with farm organizations has been frostbitten...
...understanding appears less and less possible. In the November negotiations, the French had to drop their earlier demand that England supply a balance in Continental affairs to any strengthening of Germany. They see--as do the Germans--that England and the U.S. are bidding against the Russians for German friendship. They think the stakes are too high to play, since it will take a lot of yielding to match the Russian bid of a united Germany. They suspect a willingness in Britain and the U.S. to rearm Germany as an enemy of the East...
...have been reading the criticisms that have been heaped upon you by some of the Boston newspapers, and particularly the serial articles in the Boston Globe which I have always considered the fairest and best football paper in Boston. Perhaps I have some prejudice because of my friendship and admiration for Mel Webb...
...desk and pointed to a story of a baker who said he was delivering a wedding cake to the mayor this week. Any comment? Snapped the mayor: "Take that paper off my desk." The "merciless intrusion" of the press, he moaned, "could do a lot toward breaking up my friendship with Miss Simpson...