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These were probably the strongest words ever penned by Ambassador Phillips in his 39 years as an impeccably correct, fashionable, circumspect career diplomat. The President kept the confidential report confidential. Ambassador Phillips next turned up in London, as chief political adviser to General Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Indian Drama | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...speak, he hurriedly crossed out the strongest sections. Two days later his speech was the subject of debate in Congress. Reason: G.O.P. Headquarters had released the made-in-Manhattan version instead of Dirksen's own. Dirksen assured his colleagues it was all a mistake: "I like to be circumspect in my language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speak Low | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Principal stumble points for this dream solution: 1) French interests in Syria and the Lebanon; 2) British mandates in Trans-Jordan and Palestine; 3) Zionism; 4) the still undisclosed attitude of Saudi Arabia's powerful, circumspect Ibn Saud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Pan-Arabian Knights | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...discussing what is actually going on in Vichy, the Admiral was extremely circumspect. Newshawks came away, however, with several definite impressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Petain Changes His Mind? | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...with arson and mayhem, made Europe's troubles look like a chamber of horrors. In one a bolshevik-bearded, Kaiser-helmeted Nazi labeled Absolutism horsewhipped a half-clad damsel named Humanity, while the sausagelike corpses of Liberty and Justice lay strewn behind them across the map of Europe. Circumspect White Committee officials, who feared Painter Owen's horror scenes might affect stomachs rather than sympathies, hung them inconspicuously, hoped nobody would pay much attention to them. "No wonder he is bedridden," shuddered one official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Posters for Britain | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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