Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Told. The report answered some questions which the Allied High Command had declined to discuss during wartime. Items...
...vastly different "truth" (according to the U.S.) came from Secretary of State Byrnes. In a tone as aggrieved as Molotov's, Byrnes pointed to another sentence in the Potsdam communique which allowed the Council to set up its own procedures, invite other nations into the treaty discussions. On Sept. 11 the London Council unanimously adopted a resolution permitting all five ministers to discuss the treaties, but leaving the final decisions to the Big Three. For ten days Russia did not object. Then Molotov suddenly insisted on changing the procedure, excluding France and China, and afterward rejected every offer...
Molotov's maneuver sorely displeased Jimmy Byrnes. Said he: such a proposal was not on the Foreign Ministers' agenda, and therefore he was not prepared to discuss it. Thoroughly angered at Molotov on other points, Britain's Bevin at first sided with Byrnes. But the Dominions, headed by Australia's bellicose Herbert Evatt, immediately subjected Bevin to such pressure that Byrnes found himself standing alone against everybody else...
Unfortunately, "Jazz Band Ball" and the blues have been replaced by a nickle serenade, and jazz no longer reigns at the Ken, nee Theatrical, Club. Next week this column will discuss the Savoy Cafe (before and after), and we're happy to say that there is an after at the Savoy with Frankie Newton opening there this coming Monday. Incidentally, the above mentioned PeeWee Russell will also soon be back in Boston: Sunday afternoon at the Jazz Society's concert in the Copley Terrace, 30 Huntington Avenue...
President Conant did not discuss the development or potentialities of the atomic bomb in which he played a considerable part as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, nor did he repeat his opposition to compulsory training...