Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beneath the official calm, there were some barely discernible stirrings. Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching called in his assistants for new strategy meetings to see if anything further could be done about the steel strikes. In the State Department, Counselor George Kennan set to work imagining himself in the Kremlin, trying...
While Congress debated the military assistance program, the final outlines of MAP had gradually taken shape in half a dozen-looseleaf notebooks in a second-floor office of the State Department. There, listed item by item, with the quantity and price of each, were precise allocations of military arms to...
No doubt of it-there really was a considerable influx of U.S. lawmakers to Spain last week, and more loomed on the horizon. Speaking through its Madrid embassy, the U.S. State Department set the situation in its proper light: the visitors were just "distinguished Americans on a private tour."
Hadn't she made a pro-Communist speech on the ship? "No, this must all be a mistake." Had she ever read Karl Marx? "No, never." Had she read Lenin? "No, no." There were more questions, including one about how she had voted in the last election. Then she...
Last week the State Department made an abject apology: "Miss Comfort was detained as the result of a most regrettable and unfortunate mistake. There is no information in the files of the immigration service which would render her inadmissible should she apply for entry into the United States in the...