Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for a passing mention in the Globe, the papers declined to discuss MacArthur's big blunder. Someone must have mumbled to the general that the truce agenda had been agreed upon in Kores, for when he visited a hospital a few minutes later he told more than one soldier. "You'll be interested to know that a truce was signed this morning...
...conference season was in full swing: ¶Barely 48 hours after signing the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco, the U.S.'s Dean Acheson, Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, and France's Robert Schuman sat down in Washington for a new round of talks. Stated agenda: "The world." Highest priority item: a postwar settlement with West Germany. The Western Big Three want to end the last occupation controls, substantially restore West German sovereignty. The U.S. hopes for a finished plan by late fall, France and Britain are in less of a hurry. ¶Also in Washington...
...never-ending American debate on public morals had on its agenda the question: Do policemen have a right to strike? More than 1,000 members of an A.F.L. policemen's union in Boston took the affirmative. Calvin Coolidge, then governor of Massachusetts, replied: "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time." He sent the state militia into Boston to restore order, and broke the strike. Overwhelmingly, the nation agreed with Coolidge, and the issue was as thoroughly settled as such questions ever are. Last week it was back again in a slightly...
...hours and eleven minutes, chain-smoking through his curved cigaret holder, fidgeting and looking at his watch. Joy bore the "Big Silence" (as U.N. reporters dubbed it) with fortitude. Finally, he suggested that, since the buffer zone question was at an impasse, the negotiators take up some other agenda item. Nam II refused. He would not even show Joy on a map whether or not he understood the U.N. concept of a defensible cease-fire line...
...this point, chief U.N. Negotiator Vice Admiral Joy said: "I propose the agenda be adopted." North Korean General Nam II chimed in, "We agree." The agreed agenda: 1) establishing a military demarcation line between the two armies, 2) setting up an authority to supervise the truce, 3) exchange of prisoners...