Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee on Women in World Affairs last week urged the appointment of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to succeed Marshall, if he retires. Asked if she would accept, Mrs. Roosevelt said: "I think that's all too silly to discuss. I hope Secretary of State Marshall will not retire-for the good of the country and the good of the world...
Words into Action. When Abdullah a month ago advised the Jews to be "more reasonable" and the Arabs "to accept the logical," Ben-Gurion was quick to reply. Said he: "I hope that Abdullah's words will be promptly translated into action." By last week, Abdullah's work of translation was making progress. Meeting in Jericho, 500 Palestine Arab leaders had proclaimed him "King of all Palestine," and demanded union with Transjordan. Cagey Abdullah took a modest line. He would consult with his government and other members of the Arab League. Last week his cabinet gave its consent...
...three years later, when he resigned from the Navy Department to accept his party's nomination (and go down to defeat) as running mate to presidential candidate James M. Cox, it was a mellower F.D.R. who wrote old Josephus Daniels: "You have taught me so wisely and kept my feet on the ground when I was about to skyrocket...
...Though I Die . . ." Many Chinese, especially northerners, could not accept this apparent detachment in the face of Japan's threat. In December 1936, the Nationalist garrison at Sian, facing Communist guerrilla forces, laid down their arms and refused to fight "fellow Chinese" any longer. Like their commander, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang ("The Young Marshal"), most of them were from Manchuria, and they wanted to fight the Japanese, if anybody. Chiang flew immediately to Sian to investigate...
From a Sickbed. The officers waited, then early in November called again. This time they meant business. Gallegos and Rómulo Betancourt, leader of Acción Democrádtica, were willing to bargain but they refused to accept dictation. Behind them, they hinted, were nearly half a million militant party members...