Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere, the issues were clarified by the Russian rejection of the "Marshall approach." In London, Richard Grossman, who has opposed Bevin's anti-Russian policy, met with a score of other Labor Party rebels, came out for Bevin's stand. In France, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier's Cabinet was rescued from a crisis when dissident Socialists, irked by Russia's action, rallied to Ramadier. For the first time at a postwar international conference, France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault got off the fence, spoke unequivocally on the side of the West...
...enforced military training for U.S. youths. Bernard Baruch put U.M.T. high on his 16-point preparedness program. Last week, speaking as chairman of the newly formed, 120-member Citizens Emergency Committee for Universal Military Training,* Owen J. Roberts, former Supreme Court justice, added his voice. World affairs are approaching a crisis, he told the House Armed Services Committee. U.S. military weakness is accelerating its approach. Said Roberts: "Every month's delay is a terribly dangerous thing...
Swallowing a regret that it should take place on a military level only, one can still examine with interest this approach to accord. The force suggested by the United States to the four other subscribing powers would consist of twenty divisions, 1250 bombers, 2250 pursuit planes, and a variegated complement of assault ships and cruisers. The total number of men involved might approach the million mark, but the force would in any event be large enough to "halt any conflict, though not too large to constitute too heavy a burden," as the French delegation reservedly...
...already appeared in Russian newspapers or periodicals. This state of affairs, and the scarcity of normal news sources, forces him to become an avid reader of Soviet news. For anyone brought up on the traditional, all-inclusive output of the American press, however, the Soviet press's ideological approach to the news takes considerable getting used to. Their press is not a people's press, although it claims to be. It is a party press. The Communist Party owns it, controls it, and uses it both as a weapon and a tactic...
Ardor & Judgment. It is Mann's tolerant, middle-of-the-road approach to man that has infuriated extremists of Right and Left, who have denounced him as a prominent but typical bourgeois. But to Mann, this insult is a compliment, because he believes that it was precisely the bourgeois soil of the 18th and 19th Centuries that nourished the traditions he most admires. Goethe, a dutiful privy councillor of Saxe-Weimar as well as a world poet; Tolstoy, a schoolteaching aristocrat who tried to look like a simple peasant-these men were cradled by the "bourgeois ideal of individual...