Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, 71 M.P.s signed an appeal for the merger of Western Europe (see below). In Brussels, the defense pact between Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg (TIME, March 15) was ready for signing. Said Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "The moment is vital. . . . [But] the best treaty in the world is worth only what its execution is worth. A diplomatic formula is not hard to find. A military agreement is not hard to make. But economic collaboration between people . . . that is the obstacle which must be surmounted...
...moment, a pungent-looking persons wanders over and says briskly, "I'm awfully sorry, but you seem to be sitting in my seat." That's all there is to it; no protest, no appeal from this awful fact; just silent submission...
...worst of all, Mr. Truman was losing out where his appeal had once been strongest. The man on the street was no longer content to admire him as just another "ordinary guy." From all over the country came a chorus of tired complaints: "He means well but he don't do well...
...Aren't Czechs." If the Finns prove stiffnecked, the Soviet chiefs will have to decide whether to use direct high-pressure methods or try to take over the country with an inside job. Finland has no real defense against direct pressure, but might try an open appeal to the U.N. If an inside job is to be tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said...
...Manhattan, the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church announced that dollars were piling high in the collection plate in response to Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill's radio appeal for contributions to a special world relief fund. Indications were that the $1,000,000 Episcopal goal would be comfortably exceeded...