Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Ohio's cautious, conservative Robert Alphonso Taft added that maybe the idea might work-if every country allowed United Nations policemen to nose around for signs of atomic activity. But many doubted that Soviet Russia, for one, would ever consent to international snooping...
Sitting in on the discussions will be nine industrialists chosen by the National Association of Manufacturers, nine chosen by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, eight delegates from A.F. of L., eight from C.I.O., one each from the United Mine Workers and Railroad Brotherhoods. Their chairman, chosen by mutual consent, will be North Carolina's Judge Walter Parker Stacy, a sober and fair-minded arbiter of many a past labor dispute...
...Britain, promising democracy to the Rumanians and Bulgars, had meant by "democracy" a set of practices and guarantees by which the majority would rule. The Russians, insisting that "democracy" already prevailed in the Balkans, meant that the majority good was being served; to them, the rule or even the consent of the majority was beside the question. U.S. and British inability to accept this definition could only mean, in Russia's view, that her wartime Allies were sabotaging Russia's postwar policy and security...
...million are still to come, including refugees from the once-German Baltic port of Stettin. The major part of Stettin lies west of the Oder River, provisional Polish-German frontier. But, with Russian consent, the Poles moved over the Oder, took over all of Stettin. Now 200,000 Germans there have been ordered to clear out. There was one Polish concession: they would not eject the Germans until after the harvest...
...certain specialties (eye, ear, nose & throat work, plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, neuropsychiatry, etc.). These specialists (except those who enlisted before 1941) will have to stay in until the Army lets them go. All other doctors who have enough points can be kept in after December 15 only with their consent...