Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the 'help discuss' mandarins had departed, the 'help decide' mandarins took over. They paid little attention to what the research had been. Each offered a decision . . . and at length a set of these were adopted. . . . It wasn't long after [that] the Japanese took over Korea...
...Government meetings at Seoul [capital of Korea] were held, in two sections. The first was composed of the 'help discuss' mandarins. They talked for hours and days on a stretch. They plumbed the innards of every problem. They reviewed every, plan proposed for anything. Then they arose and went...
Last year, New York Timesman Arthur Krock selected this picture of Korean administration at the turn of the century as an appropriate brick to throw (by way of parable) at Washington's bureaucracy. Last week the lack of connection between U.S. "help discuss" and "help decide" mandarins was painfully apparent in Korea...
...Gaulle's office came a letter from a Committee of Five, representing Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists, the League for the Rights of Man and the General Confederation of Labor (Confederation Generate du Travail-France's C.I.O., claiming 3,500,000 members). The committee requested an interview to discuss France's electoral machinery, which leftists say gives the rural population a greater voice than city workers. The letter was signed by the C.G.T.'s burly, goateed Secretary General, Léon Jouhaux...
...York Post, Correspondent Murrow gave a radio man's expert analysis of an Attlee speech: "not a success." Reason: "He swallowed the end of his sentences and managed to discuss the whole subject as though elucidating some obscure, unimportant passage in a Latin translation." Concluded Murrow: "Attlee will have to exercise his powers of persuasion in Commons . . . and the Cabinet... rather than from the broadcasting studio...