Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Russians, the U.S. State Department explained, "are seeking to reserve to themselves war booty which they had previously agreed to relinquish, as well as the greater share of Austria's oil-refining capacity and oil-exploration areas, of which they were to have received only some 60% under...
The U.S. State Department has broken ranks on China policy. Two sharply conflicting views are now struggling to prevail.
The diehards of the Far Eastern Division, led by Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, W. Walton Butterworth (whose May appointment has not yet been confirmed in the Senate), will not budge from their static "wait-until-the-dust-settles" strategy. But a dissenting group, led by Director George Kennan...
So far, Acheson refuses to accept the Knowland proposal. Instead, he has his aides looking for some other bill to serve the same purpose. His attitude has convinced leading Republican Senators that he really opposes the whole idea, still sides with the department's dust-settling faction. At the...
Bombay's health department, by using some statistical mumbo jumbo, had concluded that the city's rat population was 3,200,000 and that each rat's gnawing cost ten rupees ($3.02) a day. When the city councillors heard that last week, they got into a squabble...