Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Recognition would jeopardize any U.S. moves in Formosa. So ran the debate. Last week another influential voice joined the discussion. The Republican's top foreign-policy strategist, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, returned to Washington, thinned down (by 30 Ibs.) but recovered from his operation. His answer to recognition was neither yes nor no. It was not yet. Said Michigan's Vandenberg: Communist China must first demonstrate its "competent control [and] its willingness to observe the rules of international law. In neither respect does it now qualify for recognition...
Editor Harold Ross, a man who gets a lot of professional mileage out of his frustrations, appeared in person to answer. He identified himself caustically: "I am the editor of an adult comic book . . . to put it heavy-handedly . . . and I commute back & forth through the terminal." A poll by "Datum Diggers," Ross cracked, would show 85.5% against the noise. The broadcasts were so loud nobody could read, so bad nobody could understand them, he said. "It varies," Ross grumbled, "but it's all bad . . . I just want to be left alone. I can do all right with...
Next day, the problem of the prisoners gave Derevyanko new troubles. When his car pulled up to the Soviet embassy shortly after noon, he found the gate closed, the compound surrounded by some 400 sad-eyed Japanese who wanted an answer to a petition in which they begged information on their missing relatives Derevyanko sneaked into the embassy by the back door, later sent an interpreter out to deal with the crowd. He got the petitioners to disperse on promise of an answer this week...