Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start, the negotiators discovered that the Yalta agreement to broaden the Warsaw Government meant one thing to Molotov, another to Clark Kerr and Harriman. The Commissar insisted that the agreement required just a few changes in the Government, all subject to veto by the present Warsaw Poles. The U.S. and British Ambassadors would have none of this. They insisted on a complete over haul, keeping elements of the present Gov ernment as a nucleus but also including Poland's non-Communist parties on an equal basis. From these extremes, the negotiators labored toward compromise...
...Latins were far from united, but most felt that "Talks" were not a satisfactory substitute for a full-fledged conference of Foreign Ministers to discuss the postwar world and the vexed question of Argentina. Some diplomats suspected that the State Department was planning to broaden the "Talks" until it could say: "What is there left to talk about...
...while there was a large, growing area of agreement. . . . The Republican Party can take pride in helping to define it and broaden it. There are only a few, a very few, who really believe that America should try to remain aloof from the world. There are only a relatively few who believe it would be practical for America or her Allies to renounce all sovereignty and join a superstate...
...Navy, which is not celebrated for liberalism in handling its race problem, announced unprecedented measures to broaden the scope of its Negro personnel. > Twenty-two Negroes will be commissioned in the Naval Reserve, the firstr in the history of the Navy. Twelve will be selected from qualified enlisted men for line duty as ensigns. Ten civilians will be appointed to serve as ensigns or lieutenants (junior grade), two each in the Chaplain, Dental, Medical, Civil Engineer and Supply Corps...
...year-old U.S. Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. The mission, the King and Badoglio all profess to have Italy's best interests at heart, but insist that their actions be judged first by the immediate necessity of driving out the Germans. Their joint plan is to broaden the flimsy base of the Badoglio Government by including in it the top leadership of the six political parties which have survived or sprung up in the wake of the German retreat...