Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other choices. In Warsaw last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (who was in high good humor) pointed out one. At the end of his brisk three-day session with satellite diplomats, he issued a "new" offer to the West which, in gist, proposed that all four occupying powers get out of Berlin -set up a "democratic" German government for all of Germany, and withdraw their troops. (The Warsaw communique added, however, that Russia would still want a hand in running the Ruhr.) This alternative had considerable attractions for the Kremlin: they had experience in setting up governments...
Last week a parliamentary committee proposed a new deal for Canada's 126,000 Indians. The gist of it: make the Indian a Canadian. Specifically, the committee proposed to give the Indian the ballot, let him buy liquor off the reservations, send his children to the white man's schools. Indian bands would be encouraged to handle their own affairs, levy their own taxes, handle their own money. The more advanced bands would be urged to incorporate as municipalities...
...Worse Than Versailles." The Reds' operative word was the magic "unity." Last week the German "People's Council" (a Communist front) trumpeted that the London plan was "far worse than the Treaty of Versailles." The Reds offered an eight-point counterproposal. The gist: Germany must be one nation, indivisible; an all-German provisional government must be formed immediately; Bizonia and all plans for a Western state must be liquidated; Germany must have a voice in future peace negotiations...
...would give Western Germany (or any part of Germany) the political organization and the economic incentive to go to work for Europe's benefit, the Western powers had to see what they could do by themselves. This week, the conference announced agreement on "recommendations" to its governments. The gist: convoke a constituent assembly to set up a democratic Western German government. If the Russians want to bring their zone in, fine-otherwise nichevo...
...deathbed issue of Manhattan's Communist New Masses last January, twelve Russian Communist writers addressed an open letter to their colleagues in the U.S. The gist of it: Whose side are you on? Last week, in the resurrected and rebaptized Masses & Mainstream, 32 U.S. writers, painters and musicians published their answer. Its gist: We're on your side, comrades...