Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first facet of this new policy related to colonial areas. For years, the U.S., remembering its own origins, has generally stood, sympathetically and vaguely, for the independence of all peoples. On the rare occasions when it had had to act, practice had not always followed precept. Last week in San Francisco, the U.S. Secretary of State announced that the U.S. now preferred, in discussing the ultimate disposition of colonies or areas under trusteeship, the word "self-government" to the word "independence." The U.S. thus sided with Great Britain and France, against Russia and China, who had wanted UNCIO...
...gallant, declaring that with his little army of 50,000 Irishmen he would fight any & every invader. . . . And he got away with it triumphantly, saved, as Mr. Churchill has just pointed out, by the abhorred partition, which gave the Allies a foothold in Ireland. ... It all sounds like an act from Victor Hugo's Hernani rather than a page of modern world war history; but Eamon de Valera comes out of it as a champion of the Christian chivalry we are all pretending to admire...
...absent Benny is a five-star heel, whose only possible usefulness to the community is martial. This fact and the picture itself suddenly become interesting when a wire informs the small-town bigwigs that they had bred a hero: Benny has killed 100-odd Japanese, died in the act, and posthumously been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...their town is on the national map and the profits, they believe, can be enormous. They whip up banners on which Benny's name appears much smaller than that of his birthplace. But they can't find Benny's family, to receive the medal and act as peg for the exploitation...
...convinced that ... far from threatening American agriculture, industry and labor, the Trade Agreements Act is an important element in promoting the postwar prosperity of all of them. It is one of the indispensable steps in bringing about a world order in which cooperation among nations replaces strife. We . . . are on the threshold of the first decisions that will determine whether we shall direct our efforts towards that goal...