Word: allay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, Thimayya summoned U.N. and Communist correspondents to Panmunjom for his first press conference. For two hours, coolly, he sought to allay U.N. fears that the" P.W.s would be coerced by Communist "explainers" into going back to their Communist homelands. The P.W.s would have to go to the explanation huts, he said, "but how do you make a man listen...
...allay the fears of France (pop. 42 million) that a reunited Germany (pop. 65 million) might one day dominate the European Assembly elections, a ceiling was fixed above which no nation's delegation might rise. Luxembourg (pop. 300,000) was pacified by a clause guaranteeing representation for states whose populations are too small to elect even one member to the supranational chamber...
Hefty Boost. To allay French fears, London, Washington and Bonn were busy searching for ways to make it easier for Paris to lay the European Army treaty before the Assembly. Konrad Adenauer began deliberately advertising his willingness to make concessions over the disputed Saar, even though they might cost him support in the nationally minded Bundestag. Britain, which has guaranteed French security on five separate occasions since 1945 ("Ever since I was a small boy," said one bored Foreign Office man), did it again. A British minister, said Whitehall, will sit in on the debates of EDC's governing...
...allay French fears that German recruits might coalesce into a new, nationalistic Wehrmacht, EDC will integrate its units at the division level. There will be no German General Staff; goose-stepping is verboten. The main contributions to the proposed 43-division force...
Said Dr. Hardy: "It is a sad commentary on our professional integrity and honesty when antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents are prescribed for an undefined illness in order to placate anxious parents and [allay] our own insecurity...