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...most unsavory sort, Yugoslavia is also a diplomatic oddity well worth preserving. She is a Communist nation that has escaped the Russian orbit. As such she may sway other Communist nations, such as China, to the view that there is a third relationship with Western nations besides clearcut alliance or clearcut opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aid to Tito | 11/2/1950 | See Source »

...persons at the meeting. It indicates an awareness of the fact that some sort of Marshall Plan is going to be passed by Congress, and that constructive action can only be in terms of influencing the exact outcome of that inevitable legislation. And the vote further indicates a clearcut realization that unless some sort of influence can be leveled at Congress, the Marshall Plan may well turn out to be more of a danger than a boon to world peace and international economic stability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plan to Save | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

...Safety. This was not the clearcut ruling that Physicist Moon wanted and it was not the clarification that many an other U.S. scientist had hoped for. Nuclear physics includes a bewildering mass of facts, figures and principles. Some are "classified" and known only (the AEC hopes) to scientists in its confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dangerous Knowledge | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...think," Walter declared, "the Supreme Court ought to recall that case, assume jurisdiction again, and lay down a clearcut yardstick. The Supreme Court would be derelict in its duty to the people generally if it did not do that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Begins Hearings on Portal Suits; Tel Aviv Official Reports British Set Seven-Day Ultimatum | 2/4/1947 | See Source »

Illinois, Wisconsin. Janizariat strategy calls for rolling up a clearcut Roosevelt victory in the New Hampshire March 12 primary (no opposition). Next step: to roll the bandwagon through the Wisconsin primary (April 2), then through Illinois. Into both these primaries stubborn old Jack Garner has stuck his red neck. Janizariat belief is that, after these two elections, the Vice President will be politically as dead as a doornail. The Kelly-Nash-Horner machine in Illinois has been told to pile up an overwhelming majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: New Era | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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