Word: allaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From reliable reports, Russia wants two things from a defeated Germany: 1) machinery; 2) enough tough young Germans to help rebuild the devastated areas of Russia. Would Russia attempt to turn these transplanted Germans, perhaps running into the millions, into Communists? Here there might be Anglo-American suspicions to allay...
...talk of coalition could not allay the fears that plague the apprehensive ministers. A Greek in Greece, Colonel Euripides Bakirdzis, wearer of the British D.S.O., and four friends of the Communist-flavored Liberation Front (EAM), had formed a new committee. The committee might well develop into a government, Tito style. It said that it had vacancies for men from Cairo, if they care to come to Greece...
Message to Dissenters. By statement and implication, Winston Churchill showed that his first & foremost concern was Britain's place in a power-political continent and world. But he did not allay all of the House of Commons' doubt and distrust. Cried a caustic, Conservative M.P. : The Prime Minister is "a Charlie McCarthy for Stalin. . . ." Such complainants failed to grasp the salient fact of Churchill's speech: to the. best of his vast abilities, Tory Churchill was fighting defensively for Britain. At the end of a restive, two-day debate, Anthony Eden completed the maneuvers which his chief...
Voices from England. In London, Food Secretary Lord Woolton said that ships were at sea bearing "thousands of tons of cereals" to India. But his words did not allay a nation's conscience. Said the liberal New Statesman and Nation: "The British Raj has failed in a major test. ..." Observed the ultra-Tory Sunday Observer...
...root vegetable called "wobbie," a cross between a carrot and a beet, with three to four times more vitamin C than either, is already under wide cultivation in The Netherlands. The Netherlands Press Agency in London made the announcement, but neglected to allay suspicions as to how wobbie would taste...