Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joined Thomas in educating the foreign masses in the peculiarities of the American public servant-a good many worked diligently at learning something themselves, thus went practically unnoticed, and in a sense, wasted their personalities during their travels. But the bolder and more extraverted made up for them...
...Would the editors . . . advocate that a citizen refuse to testify before the secret proceedings of a Grand Jury? . . . Would the editors deprive an applicant for a government position ... of their endorsement? Does the editorial admonition mean that Harper's advocates protecting a foreign agent against the security of the U.S. ... Does Harper's advocate the view that a person decline to furnish facts to an investigator that would establish the innocence of a person unjustly accused? Does Harper's believe that the government of the U.S. should employ members of the Ku Klux Klan...
...that they do not want a German army. A public-opinion poll in the new republic showed that 60% of the Western Germans do not want to bear arms. Certainly, it was unrealistic to expect, as some Western military leaders have suggested, that Germans would long bear arms under foreign officers, i.e., under Western Union headquarters. Cried the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine last week: "You cannot buy German military ability for money, white bread and corned beef...
...Russians had given Soviet passports to thousands of emigres, who, although antiCommunist, were tired of life in exile and wanted to go back to Russia, but Moscow had held up the actual entry permits, used them as bait to force some of the emigres to work for Soviet foreign agents. That, apparently, was what had happened to the twelve accused...
...Arthur Deakin fought for London. Some Americans favored almost any place but London. The squabble was a reflection of a deeper rift. The Americans considered the British T.U.C. leadership to be undynamic, bogged down in home worries and tied to the British Labor government's colonial and foreign policies...