Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Russians still talked optimism. Said Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, head of the Russian delegation to the Joint Commission: "There is no stalemate that may not be broken." Everybody wondered how and when the break would come.
Liberia never had much of a chance. Founded by the American Colonization Society as a home for freed slaves from the U.S., it got its independence in 1847 chiefly because nobody was looking. It was ridden by sleeping sickness and plagued by the Harmattan wind from the Sahara Desert, whose...
Old Hand. Ironing out rough spots is an old story to Fernandes. He was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, to the Reparations Commission, to the League of Nations. As one of the jurists appointed to draw up the statute for the Permanent Court of International Justice...
With Dignity. In Edmonton, Health Minister Cross was not talking. One day before the Whitton summary was released, his government set up a three-man commission headed by Chief Justice William Robinson Howson to conduct a "full investigation" into the policies of the Child Welfare Branch of the Ministry. Minister...
The public was let in, in large numbers, but photographers were not. Victor (I Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, onetime Soviet official, was testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Mr. Kravchenko," Committeeman Karl Mundt explained darkly, "may be in considerable danger" if his picture should appear in the papers. Kravchenko...