Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address given by the girl co-chairman of the U. S. group was considerably more politically-toned. A student told a CRIMSON reporter that "we had no time to work out the speech before she gave it, so we voted to let her write...
According to a transcript of her speech, the chairman stated that "scarcely have the war drums died down...while peace-loving countries are busily planning, working, and rebuilding their social order, there are those who are plotting further exploitation and oppression. Foremost among them are the banks and trusts--the high financiers, monopolists, imperialists of America...Through the Marshall Plan they dump their produce on the needy peoples of the world...through the guise of being champions of world democracy they dictate the political policies of the participating countries." She went on to cite the example of the Soviet Union...
According to the notes on the meetings, 'Warshaw cut in and stated that the Steering Committee was wrong in claiming mistranslating. He said that he would like to read the translation along with the official Festival copy and compare them. The chairman said that the committee shouldn't discuss specific differences but principals.' Someone also said 'you have to see the incident in its total context...
...which the Steering Committee demanded the power to investigate "rumor-mongers." Warshaw notes that rumors were circulating throughout Budapest when the Americans arrived; rumors of secret police raids, of Russian troop movements, of the torture of political prisoners of widespread poverty in Hungary. The meeting was called by the chairman of the Steering Committee to discuss the fact that "these rumors are dangerous to the delegation...