Word: accomplies
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...Triestinos think of themselves as Italian, but the Slav tide-Slovenes to the north, Croats to the east-washes into the city's suburbs. To the northeast lies D'Annunzio's Fiume. Italy after the last war presented the peacemakers with a fait accompli by seizing Fiume. Tito last week followed D'Annunzio's gaudy example and bid for permanent possession of Trieste and all Istria, which would greatly enhance the Mediterranean position of the states grouped around Russia. Britain reacted as she must wherever her Mediterranean control is threatened. The U.S. Government, acknowledging...
...fait accompli in Vienna was timed with the arrival of U.S. troops at the Austrian frontier. It extended Russian influence to the Swiss borders. But Washington and London promptly let Mosow know that they had no intention of recognizing the new Austrian regime...
Striped Pants. On the London-Washington diplomatic political front, tight censorship was a fait accompli despite the U.S. State Department's denial that it had anything to do with it. The hard fact was that only the official view of events affecting the future of the world could now be safely sent from London...
...afford to pay any amount, for the Government as a wartime customer needed all the coal the miners could dig. After a suitably decorous interval WLB would approve the new contract (retroactive to April 1), and the mines would be returned to the helpless operators, the contract a fait accompli. (No tears fell for the operators: a February price increase, approved by OPA, took care of added pay for the sixth working...
...likely to be that the University's well-considered plans for formalizing relations between Harvard and Radcliffe will be defeated by the protests of back-to-the-kitchen traditionalists, that the University shrink from considering for the future what the Globe has announced as a fait accompli at the present time...