Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to be careful not to be misunderstood at this point because, to many Americans, the word "Communist" automatically means Russia. One of the things I wanted to find out in China was how much, if any, is the Kremlin behind the Communists in China. Russia's official conduct with regard to the Chinese Communists since they made a pact with Chiang in September 1937 has been perfectly correct and circumspect. There was no evidence that I could find or hear about that Moscow has been backing or supplying, either with materials or with guidance, the Communist government...
Ardent Nazis sometimes popped up in high places. Clemens Krauss, whom the Russians brought to Vienna to conduct symphony concerts, was strongly pro-Nazi. The black, white & red flags which German civilians were allowed to fly in Russian Germany were the emblem, not of the Weimar republic, but of old imperial Germany. These may have been mistakes; they may have been planned policy...
Muscular Prose. Dissenting justices stated their objections in muscular prose. Said Hugo La Fayette Black: "The Williamses have been convicted under a statute so uncertain in its application that not even the most learned member of the bar could have advised them in advance as to whether their conduct would violate the law. . . . [This] will cast a cloud over the lives of countless . . . divorced persons...
...from the Front. In 1943, Dr. John Lucian Savage, top U.S. Bureau of Reclamation civil engineer, who had gone to Chungking at Chinese invitation to study potential hydropower sites, asked to visit the Yangtze gorge. The bleak area was a fighting zone, but the Chinese Army guaranteed Savage safe conduct. In quiet broken by occasional rifle shots from the sleeping front, Savage charted possible dam sites except those above Ichang at the mouth of the gorge, which was in Jap hands...
...hurried to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Ministry of Finance was ordered to conduct an immediate inquiry. "We decided on this measure," said T.V.. "because, at the slightest suspicion of corruption in the Government, immediate and thorough investigation and punishment should follow. This could only result in strengthening . . . the authority of the Government . . . enhance the confidence of the people...