Word: deadlocker
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...Cadets, who had a record of six and three last year, have already bowed to Tufts, 13 to 6, to Virginia, 39 to 0, and to Rensselaer Polytech, 18 to 7, and have played a 12 to 12 deadlock with Scranton...
...questions. He said carefully: "I am confident of the outcome of the negotiations. . . . The Chinese Communist Party is prepared to make important concessions. . . . I believe that . . . an agreement, not temporary in character but one which will ensure long-term peaceful reconstruction, will emerge." Mao refused to contemplate deadlock and bloody civil war. He declared emphatically: "I do not believe that the negotiations could break down. Under whatever condition, the Chi nese Communist Party will persist in a policy of avoiding civil war. There may be difficulties, but they will be overcome...
Unshaken by his first failure to break the Indian deadlock (TIME, July 16), Viceroy Lord Wavell would try again. Last week, he emplaned for London to try to figure out with the Labor Government a new way to crack the old problem...
...seventh day, the deadlock over administrative procedure was broken. To a conference hurried Russia's Marshal Georgi Zhukov, the U.S.'s Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and Britain's Lieut. General Sir Ronald M. Weeks. An official statement said "useful decisions [were] reached in an atmosphere of complete and mutual understanding." Correspondents passed the word along that Marshal Zhukov, hitherto inhibited by the presence of the Kremlin's strong-arm troubleshooter, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky, had received more discretionary authority and was using it to speed up cooperation. Soon it was announced that...
...about this business now? Can't you wait?" Wavell said no. Britain had pledged her word that India should have self-government when the war ended. Britain must keep her word. If she was to win Indian good will, it was vital to break the three-year political deadlock at once. The situation must not be allowed to drift dangerously while momentous events brewed in Asia. Said Wavell grimly: without a new offer backed by the Government he would not return to India...