Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vinogradov is on excellent terms with President Charles de Gaulle. This goes back to 1944, when Vinogradov was ambassador in Ankara. There, one day, a representative of General Charles de Gaulle approached him and asked that Moscow recognize the French government in exile. Vinogradov not only passed on the request but urged Moscow to grant it. When De Gaulle visited Stalin a year later, it was Vinogradov who was specially recalled to make him feel at home...
...concerned. On this basis, it is necessary that a date be set beyond which petitions will not be accepted. In fairness to the 32 men who filed their petitions on time, I feel obligated to run the election as scheduled, unless the Senior Class in overwhelming numbers request that these very rules which were drawn up to insure equality be set aside. In short, the question depends on whether election rules can be laid aside at this late date and for these reasons, or whether by abandoning all procedure an election becomes a farce...
...arrival in Tokyo Charlie Porter was understandably hesitant about going on to Formosa. At his request, Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II made some discreet inquiries, assured Porter that he was still welcome. He was. Although Chiang was, unsurprisingly, too preoccupied to see him, the top officials of the Nationalist government turned out to greet Porter at a dinner at the home of the U.S. chargé d'affaires, on the day of his arrival. Sensing a certain "strain in the air," Porter opened the conversation jovially: "I suppose that if I convince you of my point of view...
Richards makes this sketch, Bontche Schweig, and the first one, The Tale of Chelm, worthwhile. In making Bontche's request, his one line in the play, he must walk the tightrope between melodrama and pathetic humor, and he does it in perfect balance. The other actors, however, seem too rigid in their parts, as if they were not really communicating with each other; and the directing seems too light, as if it were not forcing the actors to work together. The music of Hovey and de Cornier, and a narrator, help to integrate these two sketches, but the result...
...American, British, French, and West German commission is weighing whether to grant a request by Adenauer that Krupp be allowed to keep his multibillion-dollar interests...