Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over & over Isacson hammered home the contention that Harry Truman had ducked the Palestine issue; that his civil-rights stand was mostly talk. Isacson wanted price control resumed, rent control continued, the Taft-Hartley Act revoked and subway fares kept at a nickel. And, most pleasing to the Communists, he was dead set against the Marshall Plan...
...would the U.S. act to insure the success of partition? That all-important question was left unanswered. Delegate Austin's orders were simply to sit tight, let others talk, and speak his piece when called...
Tension mounted. Nosek raised a cry which, for all its dull repetition in eastern Europe, has cost many a man his head in Communism's march to power. He "discovered" a plot against the state. Equally ominous was the act of General Ludvik Svoboda. As Minister of National Defense he was listed as a man of no party, but in the pinch his advice to the troops read: "The Army must seek a stronger brotherhood with the Soviet Union...
Said the British administration: "It is unbelievable that this act has been committed by members of the security forces." An Arab military source said that the explosives were planted by "seven Arab commandos in Palestine police uniforms . . . trained in Syria under Czechoslovak officers...
Showman Gonzalez was not alone in the international claim-staking act. The Argentines were in a dispute with the British over Antarctic lands and the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Argentine Task Force I, five ships with no fewer than five admirals aboard, had pushed south to visit the outpost on Deception Island. It made quite a show of power, especially since the Argentine hut on Deception is only 80 feet from the British base. But when the Argentines learned that the British had sent the 8,000-ton cruiser Nigeria from South Africa to the same waters, they cried...