Word: allay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt's example, argued some Republicans, he might be trapped into implied approval of Democratic policies. During the campaign Truman had given Ike quite a lesson in the technique of shifting responsibility, by trying to make it appear that Ike was to blame for the Korean war. To allay fears that Truman would spring another trap, Ike's press secretary issued a statement emphasizing that Eisenhower would possess "no authority of any kind" until his inauguration, and that the chief function of his representatives would be to obtain information...
...went to U.N. Commissioner Eduardo Anze Matienzo. the genial Bolivian who prepared the way for federation. Anze Matienzo arrived in Asmara 20 months ago in the wake of bloody riots between Eritrea's Moslems and its Christian Copts. He went into every corner of the land seeking to allay religious distrust. His success was shown by the peaceful nature of Eritrea's first national elections, held earlier this year, which sent 34 Copts and 34 Moslems to an assembly that ratified a constitution acceptable to both sects...
...allay French fears that German recruits might coalesce into a new nationalistic Wehrmacht, EDC will limit its national contingents to relatively' small divisional formations known as "groupements": 12,000 men apiece for armored groupements, 13,000 for infantry. The groupement will be the largest formation of men from the same country; at army corps level (i.e., three or four groupements), national units will be put into multinational commands in which French, German, Italian and Benelux staff officers will serve side by side. Probable size of the European army, when & if it is recruited: 43 groupements (14 French, 12 German...
...Winston soothes France,"said an eight-column banner in London's Daily Express. The Prime Minister's two-day visit to Paris last week was plainly designed to allay French fears before he set sail on the Queen Mary this week for his first official trip to the U.S. since the war. He wanted to assure his political next-door neighbor, French Premier Rene Pleven, that he would make no deals with the Americans which left France out in the cold. And he made it plain that Britain's refusal to join a Western Europe economic...
...cementing this country together," says an English veteran of Libya, "it will be the King. The cement is Islam-these people really believe and live Islam." (The first daub of cement: a royal decree establishing two capitals, the main one in Tripoli, and the second in Benghazi to allay Cyrenaican fears of Tripoli...