Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department, which hopes eventually to bring the President around to its view, makes the following case for recognition...
...Briggs, new U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, presented his credentials to Czech President Klement Gottwald. In the golden days of diplomacy, the presentation of credentials was considered an occasion unfit for the transaction of business. But Briggs, no man to be silenced by diplomatic niceties, used the formal occasion to bring up some urgent, unfinished business. Here, he told Gottwald in effect, are my credentials. And now, what about Samuel Meryn...
...article, Editor Andre Bougenot declared: "Several important political personalities were recently shown the text of a secret protocol, signed by General de Gaulle and Georges Bidault." The deal, according to Bougenot, was that Bidault, if he became Premier, would prevent any pther government from succeeding his own. This would bring about dissolution of the Assembly, and new elections. The M.R.P. and De Gaulle's party would then join forces under an antiCommunist, strong-government banner, and would, if they won the election, install themselves in power...
...Canceled Bomber. On the other hand, the bomber in mass formations over land targets had become very vulnerable. One lesson of World War II, says Bush, is that "bombardment of enemy cities in the face of determined defense, as the sole means of bringing victory over a foe of equal or comparable strength, was a delusion, and not worth the extreme cost and effort it entailed . . . [In the future] no fleets of bombers will proceed unmolested against any enemy that can bring properly equipped jet pursuit ships against them in numbers, aided by effective ground radar, and equipped with rockets...
Harvard and Yale, the originators of big time football now fallen by the wayside, meet in the Bowl today. But the mere honor of victory in the 66th renewal of the nation's most famous football rivalry is enough to bring upwards of 60,000 people to New Haven for the game...