Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A few days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of...
Roosevelt during the troubled days of World War II, a formidable poker player, above all, a man of diplomacy who was appointed Chief Justice to squelch the old feud between Black and Jackson which exploded in public in 1946.
For a while it looked as though the Foreign Ministers Conference would never end; this week, finally, the conference unraveled itself and managed to adjourn. The limited agreement reached between the West and Russia was largely a declaration of intention; as such it would please those who have any faith...
The Deal. On Berlin, the Ministers reached what the diplomats insisted on calling a modus vivendi, i.e., a way of muddling along in Berlin without real concessions from either side. The agreement instructed the Berlin occupation commanders to consult on how they might "mitigate the effects of the present administrative...
When American "educators" proceed to draw a this line, between intellectual error and "surrender of intellectual integrity," canonization proceedings may be in order. But I doubt it. Academic chaos (necessary to some degree I assume, as long as we know less than absolute truth) begins to look like academic utopia...