Word: text
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal protest to each of the sponsoring nations, denouncing the treaty as an unfriendly, aggressive act. To their separate notes of protest, the Russians got one brisk reply, issued by all twelve-the first joint action of the North Atlantic nations. Said the foreign ministers to the Kremlin: "The text of the treaty itself is the best answer to such misrepresentations and allegations...
Replied Snyder: "My interest in the song comes not from the text but from the melody." The Kansas City Star picked up the same tune in an editorial: "Nobody need bother with singing the words because the citizenry-we hope-won't be expected to remember them anyway." Last week, Missouri's lower house apparently agreed, approved Snyder's bill...
...North Atlantic Pact, most recent attempt to settle the confused international picture, will be signed next week, offering the propaganda-weary people of the world a glimpse of a possibility for a secure peace. The recently revealed text of the Pact shows clearly its intent and its dangers...
...reporters of the U.S. and foreign press began gathering sleepily at the State Department. They were handed a little five-page booklet; the text of the North Atlantic Treaty was top secret no longer. The newsmen had two hours to get their questions ready. On the dot of 9 a.m., Secretary of State Acheson, the man who had the answers, faced the reporters...
Explained the U.S. publisher, who has sold 425,000 copies of Anna Karenina in the past year: "It was impossible to publish Anna Karenina at its full length in our format, and we felt that a condensed version would be better than none at all. The text was kept in the author's own words . . ." But there would be no market for such an enterprise in Russia. The Literary Gazette said: "With wrath and indignation the reader throws aside this latest lampoon cooked by American literary gangsters who have lost all proportions in their savagery and ignorance...