Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourth news obscured some of the political drama and meaning implicit in Churchill's presence in Paris. Except for a brief dash to Normandy shortly after the invasion, Churchill had not been in France since 1940. Then, at the climax of France's collapse before the German armies, he had swooped in by plane to reverse centuries of British isolationist policy toward Europe by offering the disintegrating nation parliamentary Union Now with Britain...
From their Washington office they distribute a monthly newspaper, the Student Federalist, which reaches nearly 40,000 readers. They are currently concentrating on a sales campaign for LIFE Editor David Cort's newly published The Great Union, a brief, eloquent, brilliantly illustrated restatement of Streit's thesis. Convinced that their cause has no more than a half-century in which to save mankind from a third world war, they have set their sights for these goals by 1950: 1) 100,000 student members; 2) 30,000 teacher members; 3) 25,000 student leaders trained in summer camps annually...
...Modest Man. Harry Truman is the man in the grey suit, usually double-breasted. His college education consists of a brief spell at the Kansas City School of Law. He is an inconspicuous man with thin lips, steel-rimmed glasses, flatly combed grey hair, and a flat, not unpleasant Missouri twang...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew back to London from Moscow last week with a promise of the world's peace in his pocket. Two days later, in an unusually brief speech, with little Churchillian rhetoric and few high spots, he reported to an attentive Parliament the results of his conference with Joseph Stalin. Peace, like most things, had a certain price...
...Paris' Palais de Justice, where Marie Antoinette had heard her death sentence pronounced. Among them was many a chic, smartly-gowned woman. Over the sea of heads few could see more than the naked statues looming behind the scarlet-and-ermine-clad judge, or catch more than brief glimpses of the begowned prosecutors, defense counsel and defendants. But all listened in a silence unusual in French courtrooms...