Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably among the toughest assignments the assembled reporters ever had to cover; for they weren't propagandists--that would have been easy. Many of the on-lookers, trained to expect a set pattern in Russian visitors, were jolted at the start by the striking difference in the two visitors' approach...
Last week this machine-age approach got Mrs. Cordova into trouble. Three of her best clients complained about her work to District Attorney James T. Burke. One aggrieved man with a "stomach misery" said he had paid her $60, had drunk a quart of mysterious liquid every three days for five months without any sign of improvement. Another had given her $25 to slap a hex on an undesirable daughter-in-law. The damned thing hadn't worked. Neither had a $40 wife-luring...
...difficult matter of defining fascism he settled this way: "One who hates the Soviet Union" is likely to be a fascist. Less simple but equally interesting was his approach to the question of Communist Party activities in other countries: "The Soviet is often reproached with mixing in other people's business. In Norway I saw roses and tomatoes growing together. I was told it was due to the Gulf Stream. Soviet Russia is like the Gulf Stream. It is here. And we do not intend to commit suicide to please other people...
...Western powers, it was, oddly enough, Britain, not the U.S., which took the lead in a more constructive approach to colonial questions. Last week Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin lent new importance to the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations by announcing that he would go in person to Cairo to participate in revision of the basic treaty between the two countries. Bevin's promise might stave off a possible Egyptian move to call U.N.'s attention to the presence of British troops in Egypt...
...opinion it furnishes the most constructive analysis of the question of international control [of atomic energy] we have seen and a definitely hopeful approach to a solution of the entire problem...