Word: standings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Platitudes & Principles. The U.S. asked: What now? Dean Acheson had an answer that was no answer at all. The U.S., he said, was "to encourage in every feasible way the development of China as an independent and stable nation"; it was to stand firmly "opposed to the subjection of China to any foreign power." Moreover, warned the Secretary, if Communist China tried aggression against its Asiatic neighbors, then we "would be confronted by a situation violative of the principles of the United Nations Charter." Pressed to translate this wind into any language meaning action, Acheson was evasive...
...country . . . You are 35, married, and have a child . . . Did you ever think what it would mean to your husband* if he could see you at home in a clean hostess gown of multi-flower print, your cheeks and hands smelling fresh? . . . And, I implore you, don't stand at the hot stove in the same dress you come home in. Put an apron around your waist, one of those plastic aprons with ruffles. They don't have to be washed...
Marshal Tito, firming up his truculent stand against Moscow, spoke bluntly last week to army officers guarding Yugoslavia's border region of Macedonia, where Cominform agents are making plenty of trouble for Tito's regime. His words were really directed across the frontier at Bulgaria, and at Russia beyond...
Carry On. All the while, Bertie had his eye on her. In 1947, at his 68th birthday party, he asked his niece to stand up in front of the 170 guests. "Bazy," the Colonel intoned, "tradition has an important part in every organization. And when 15 or 20 years from now, I am no longer [here], Ruth Elizabeth-Bazy-will be carrying on the tradition of [Tribune Dynasty Founder] Joseph Medill...
...assure you that I have no prejudice ... I have no intention of attacking you ... or of attacking the Roman Catholic Church, but I shall, of course, continue to stand for the things in our Government which I think are right...