Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear that Harry Truman was having a hard time letting go of the red herring. Wrote the Christian Science Monitor's Washington chief, Roscoe Drummond: "If the latest results of the committee rightly can be called 'red-herring' stuff, why is the President even talking about arrests and Justice Department action? The truth is that this is not 'red-herring' stuff and the country deserves to have the Administration and the committee dealing with it seriously and soberly, and not with the back of the political wrist...
From the outset, the judging nations were not quite sure of what rights they had over the accused, or under what laws the conduct of the accused should be judged. The hope was that these questions would become clear as the trials unfolded. Nürnberg, at first, seemed to bear out this hope-at least, the proceedings were conducted with dignity and in a spirit of fair play which diverted attention from the underlying absence of clarity. After three years of war trials, however, the world is no farther along than it was in 1945 to an understanding...
Just who would do the fighting was not clear. Abdullah's move for annexation looked more like a step toward peace than a challenge to war. There was a good chance that peace, if only by bits & pieces, was returning to Palestine...
Last week Gallegos, still smarting, went the whole hog and named a name. The man, he said, was Colonel Edward F. Adams, U.S. military attache at Caracas. As a powerful supporter of the Pan American principle of nonintervention, the U.S. had to clear itself of the embarrassing Gallegos charge of meddling in Venezuelan politics...
With the smoke blown away, two things seemed clear: Colonel Adams' visits might have been unfortunately timed, but were scarcely conspiratorial; ex-President Gallegos sounded like a man whose understandable sense of shock and political injustice had overbalanced his usual sense of judgment...