Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doubt Where He Stands." Son of a scholar of Chinese classics, law graduate of Tokyo Imperial University, Shigemitsu grew up through the Japanese Foreign Service. He believed Japan should control important parts of China, but somehow thought the conquest could be achieved without coming into conflict with the U.S. Shigemitsu served in London, in Berlin and in Portland, Ore., and was a member of the Japanese delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in Versailles. As Minister to China (1931-33), Shigemitsu unaffectedly supported the Japanese invasions. His specious argument: "China is not properly a nation or a state...
Principles in conflict...
Marshall immediately realized that two principles were in conflict. Said he: "The principle which entitles the United States to the testimony of every citizen, and the principle by which every witness is privileged not to accuse himself, can neither of them be entirely disregarded...
...this situation, the U.S., like everyone else, is caught up in a conflict of sympathies. But the choice is not between backing the Arab cause, whatever fanatic course it may take, or backing the French, however meanly they behave. It is to seek out and to encourage those in both camps who wish an accommodation fruitful to all. That such forces still exist, after all the violence, is North Africa's one flickering hope...
Long before Capitol Hill's noisiest business baiters got worked up about the WOCs* (TIME. July 18 et seq.), Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was working out a code of conduct to avoid conflict, or the appearance of conflict, between Government duties and private interests. Last week Secretary Weeks handed down his six-page code, warned his 45,700 employees that failure to observe it could cost them their jobs. Under his new rules, Commerce employees...