Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three had practiced to deceive their Allies and the world. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin had made a secret bargain on voting in the postwar World Assembly-and kept it secret. Six weeks after the sorry deal was struck at Yalta, the New York Herald Tribune sniffed out part of the story, and forced the White House to explain...
...Secret Dealing." The bargain was bad enough, but the deceit was worse. In the proposals drafted last fall at Dumbarton Oaks, and in all the whooping since then, the Assembly had been touted as the forum where all nations, big and small, would have an equal voice. True, a voice was about all the Assembly would have-the power was concentrated in the eleven-member Security Council, dominated by the big fellows. For that very reason, the Assembly's "sovereign equality" was precious to the little fellows...
...Roosevelt's excuse to them: Stalin wanted more votes, and the bargain was the best to be had. Stalin, said the President, at first asked for 16 additional votes-one for each of the Soviet Republics. When Mr. Roosevelt countered that he would then want a vote for each of the 48 states, Stalin settled for three: one each for the Ukrainian and White Russian Republics, one for the Soviet Union...
...bombing of Japanese cities. The price the U.S. had paid for the desolate pinprick of land on the road to Japan had been bitterly high. But while they winced at the cost, military men and most U.S. citizens knew that it was part, and only part, of the stern bargain that had to be made...
Familiar Patterns. To house its second international venture (the first: a store in Havana), Sears plans to build a new million-dollar building with a bargain basement, and a typical Sears façade-to be open for business probably early in 1947. The store will have a U.S. manager and Mexican personnel. The site, as with most Sears stores, is comfortably out of Mexico City's high-rent district...