Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign policy must be practically identical with Russia's, and Poland's Government must be acceptable as well to Russia." A seasoned Polish observer of six days' standing, Correspondent Ingersoll concluded that it was "a highly complicated situation which cannot easily be analyzed in brief news dispatches." That didn't stop him from trying. Everybody damns the Government's secret police for "excesses and almost all agree that it is presently unpopular with most of the people," he wrote, and "there is no question at all but that they [the Communists] carry the most weight...
...made it was John Foster Dulles, adviser to Republicans, including Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Presidential Aspirant Thomas Dewey in 1944, and an alternate delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Dulles had discussed the policy with both Dewey and Vandenberg, who concurred in his view; he had had a brief session with President Truman ("I just paid my respects"). He presented his proposition last week to 1,000 publishers and managers of U.S. magazines gathered at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
...Brief Encounter. Beautifully touching middle-aged romance, British-made (TIME, Sept...
...respecter of sacred cows. In the middle of the campaign last fall, he attacked the legal and moral Tightness of the Nurnberg trials-to the deep embarrassment of his party. A speech which he delivered at the Yale Engineering Club last spring was characteristic of him. In that brief address he attacked...
...Brief Encounter. Excellent British made tearjerker, from a Noel Coward playlet (TIME, Sept...