Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, Creech-Jones promised, would put their "experience" at the disposal of U.N. They would even stay on in Palestine for a brief transition period -provided U.N. could find a solution to which Jews and Arabs would peaceably agree. But, said the Colonial Secretary with deliberate emphasis: "His Majesty's Government are not themselves prepared to undertake the task of imposing a policy in Palestine by force of arms. ... In the absence of a settlement they must plan for an early withdrawal of British forces. . . ." If His Majesty's Government had a preference for any particular solution...
...career, the warning that Andrei Vishinsky gave to the West last week was worth pondering. It meant that Vishinsky's masters, whose people and land put Soviet Russia astride half the world, had no more intention than they had ever had of cooperating with the West, save in brief tactical moments. Did his outburst mean that the fanatics of the Kremlin were condemning not only the peaceful part of the world, but the patient Russian people, exhausted by years of dictatorship and permanent economic depression, to World War III? Only the Kremlin knew. Certainly, more conflict lay immediately ahead...
...Szechuan-born peasants, Liu Po-cheng early became a soldier, fighting the warlords' battles. In one early encounter, he lost an eye and gained his nickname. During the brief marriage of the Kuomintang and the Communists, he fought for Chiang Kaishek. After Chiang split with the Communists, Liu went to the Moscow Military Academy. On the Communists' famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore...
Most of the report to the Council will be an account of the Madison conference, and the material part that the Harvard delegation played in its sessions, Weld said, although a brief sketch of the earlier organizational history of the NSA will also be included...
...poetry, "My Heart Is a City," by H. Lawrence Osgood, ranks foremost for its gently tripping pace and for its neat imagery. "Point of Departure," by John Ashbery, and "Anatomy of Degradation," by John Simon, both lack the polished impact of Osgood's brief offering. The poetry necessarily should provide the magazine's continuity-breaks in the utter absence of anything resembling commentary on contemporary issues. One wouldn't even want William Becker's excellent discussion of John Millington Synge to reach a more sensational conclusion than that the Irish playwright led the modern field in "unselfconscious realism...