Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battered question of a troop census was still under discussion. Shawcross had taunted Russia's Molotov because of Russia's reluctance to include a census of home troops. Molotov taunted Sir Hartley with Britain's unwillingness to include information on armaments - all armaments. When the Russian was through, the Briton rushed to the rostrum. Cried he: "I accept the challenge! I think this is going to be a historic occasion...
...said that the U.S. would not submit atomic information to any hastily devised agency, but would yield everything when a world control system along Mr. Baruch's lines had been set up. He also cut the ground from under Russia's agitation for a troop census by giving the figure on U.S. forces abroad: 550,000. Most of them, he added, were in occupation areas. There were 96,000 in the Philippines, only 19,000 in China. Russia, he thought, had many more in Manchuria. Britain's Bevin, who had no ready figures, nevertheless added...
...general optimism by resorting to one of his old tactics: reopening an issue which the Western bargainers had thought, or at least hoped, was settled. Without reversing his stand on long-range inspection and control, Molotov said that Russia would not submit to a quick (i.e., pre-disarmament) census of home troops unless a survey of armaments (including atomic weapons) was included...
...census: rural, 1,222,198;urban...
...Vanishing Man. The friendly conference, in Baruch's Manhattan office, lasted three hours. On one side were Wallace and his adviser, alert Philip Hauser of the Census Bureau. On the other: Baruch and his associates, ex-Editorialist Herbert Bayard Swope, Banker John Hancock, Wall Streeter Ferd Eberstadt. Wai. lace, it developed, had based his criticism largely on the advice of a friend of his in UNRRA, who was now abroad. Baruch showed him, point by point, where he was wrong. The upshot of the conference: Hauser and Swope would draft a retraction for Wallace to sign...