Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maryland's waspish Millard Tydings had one more question: What if Acheson could not accept any foreign policy course that the President should suggest? "I anticipate nothing so unhappy," Acheson said. "But should it arise, I would resign...
...Never again," said U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, would she accept a compromise in the United Nations merely to win Soviet support for something everyone else had agreed on. For three years Delegate Roosevelt has tried her level best to get along with the Russians. Last week, in a speech at Washington, she conceded that it hadn't seemed to work. "I don't think I will ever compromise again even on words," she said. "The Soviets look on this as evidence of weakness rather than as a gesture of good will...
...Maria Eva Duarte de Péron Social Assistance Foundation of Argentina had been pleased to send enough clothes for 600 of the poor children of Washington. Told that the State Department had no objections, Mrs. Fay Vawters, co-director of the Society, said bravely: "We are going to accept [the gift] with all the grace that God in his mercy can bestow upon us." Evita had made the most of her chance...
Applications for American and Canadian students to study this summer in England will close March 1. The Institute of International Education, 2 West 45th st., New York, will accept applications only from residents of the United States. Canadians will have to wait until a Dominion representative is chosen...
Chiang cannot accept the unconditional surrender terms of the Communists, according to Pound, because in doing so he would be abolishing the constitution, the report continues...