Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood firmly by its plan for international control, which last year was approved by a vast majority of U.N.'s General Assembly, the six Red-bloc nations dissenting. The plan provides for 1) a cooperative international agency to own and control all atomic energy, including production for peaceful use; 2) inspection by representatives of the control commission, who must have "unimpeded rights of ingress, egress and access . . . into, from and within the territories of any participating nation"; 3) majority rule in the control commission, without a veto...
...typist was talking about Yugoslavia's candidacy for a seat on the Security Council, which came up for a vote before U.N.'s General Assembly last week. The U.S. backed Yugoslavia. Russia, dead set against the Titoist rebels, backed Czechoslovakia. The issue that bitterly divided the Eastern bloc also split the Western camp: Britain had chosen to back the Russian candidate...
When President Truman signed the present law in 1948, he specifically condemned its inadequacy and obvious bias, and urged Congress to revise it at the first opportunity. A bloc of Republicans and Southern Democrats has just thrown one opportunity down the drain. Perhaps in January, with a larger number of Senators interested enough to attend, this mistake can be rectified...
Charging that the Lampoon simply isn't arty enough," John P. C. Train '50, curator of the Bow Street Aviary, yesterday led a bloc of dissentient dilettantes out of the magazine's monthly policy meeting...
Communist Max Reimann, leader of a bloc of only 15 votes in the Bundestag's 402, joined in the melee. When he described the Oder-Neisse line as the "boundary of peace," all parliamentary decorum disappeared. As the delegates raged against Reimann, two men in dirty, torn, Wehrmacht greatcoats, P.W.s just released by Russia, shoved their way into the chamber and yelled: "No home, nothing to eat, and then we have to listen to this Red gaff!" Communists charged a "provocation." Said one Christian Democrat delegate gloomily: "It's a good thing we still have an Occupation Statute...