Word: dirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul van Zeeland, Belgium; Lester Pearson, Canada; Gustav Rasmussen, Denmark; Count Carlo Sforza, Italy; Joseph Bech, Luxembourg; Dirk U. Stikker, The Netherlands; Jose Caeiro da Matta, Portugal; Halvard M. Lange, Norway; Thor Thors, Iceland...
When a committee member broke into the testimony to ask if Professor Dirk J. Struik of MIT had violated the teachers' oath law by alleged subversive activities, Coolidge replied that he was "not satisfied" that Struik has advocated violent overthrow of the national government. Struik has every right to free speech, Coolidge said, adding that "it's a healthy thing to have a few cranks in a university...
Italy's old Count Carlo Sforza entered its wide spaces first, to plead the case for Italian trusteeship of her former African colonies. The Netherlands' Dr. Dirk U. Stikker talked to Secretary Acheson for two hours, and was pressed to come to terms with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...
Professor Dirk J. Struik of M.I.T. was accused of teaching the violent overthrow of the government of the United States from two quarters this week...
...Jogjakarta the Republican government denounced Muso and his men as "traitors," ordered the army to put down the rebellion. From Washington, Dutch Foreign Minister Dirk Stikker, who had been telling U.S. officials about the Communist threat in Indonesia, made a cagey offer of Dutch help: "We are ready to meet and support Premier Hatta if he is ready to make arrangements with the Dutch." To Indonesia's Premier Hatta it looked like a very big "if"; he said he would not tolerate any Dutch "meddling...