Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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White House aides on Tuesday afternoon summoned a dozen reporters, handed them this statement from the President...
Newsmen, unfamiliar with his reference, hurried from the room, found that a State Department aide had thoughtfully appeared in the anteroom with a Bible in which they could read the text. *From this fact and from the statement itself they concluded that the Secretary of State had spoken only after careful thought, and not impulsively...
...Jeopardy. The condemnation of Acheson was not unanimous. The New York Herald Tribune thought that Acheson's statement "was as courageous as it was Christian." But even among those who did sympathize with his personal reaction were many who deplored his official conduct. Was betrayal of one's country a pardonable offense in the eyes of the Secretary of State...
...Germany to Britain, but Stalin plainly believed that it was somehow part of a British-German plot to get together in an attack on Russia. When Churchill insisted that he had told all he knew of the Hess flight, Stalin was still incredulous. Churchill huffed: "When I make a statement of facts within my knowledge, I expect it to be accepted." Stalin only grinned knowingly. "There are lots of things," he said, "that happen even here in Russia which our secret service do not necessarily tell...
...Courant says Valpey's appointment to the vacant football post is definite. It declines to reveni the source of this statement...