Word: abstentionism
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Many other Frenchmen felt the same way; 28% of them stayed away from the polls. A high abstention rate was expected to work in favor of the Communists, who do not stay home. Nevertheless, Foreign Minister and Provisional President Georges Bidault's Catholic Progressive M.R.P. made an amazingly good...
Then the committee by an eight to three vote the proposal of former Senator Warren it. Austin, Chief V. S. delegate, opening the headquarters question to include invitations from New York City and San Francisco. There was one abstention.
The Russians offered an improbable official explanation for their abstention: they wanted more time to study the plan. It was more likely that they had simply decided not to show their hand until the dollars which they hope to get through a U.S. loan are securely in Russian pockets.
Abstention on Expansion. Fur flew on a proposal to admit Australia, Brazil and Yugoslavia to the Council's Central Committee. The Russians objected, apparently because no instructions had been received from Moscow, even to inclusion of friendly Yugoslavia. After the motion was defeated, Russia requested that her negative vote...
The fact that Harry Hopkins in London had preached the new doctrine of responsible U.S. participation, in contradiction of this State Department talk, left the British baffled and distrustful. It also baffled and disturbed the State Department which would not even acknowledge to itself the most important fact of current...