Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, broken in midsentence, it ended. It was unofficial: a Domei dispatch broadcast by Radio Tokyo at 7:35 a.m. (Truman time), picked up by listening monitors on the Pacific Coast, and teletyped to Washington. It was nothing that a President could formally discuss with his Allies, or reply to. But a man could talk about it. The President wanted to talk to somebody, and he immediately summoned four men: Admiral Leahy and Secretaries Byrnes. Stimson, Forrestal...
Truman now had something to discuss - through diplomatic channels. Franklin Roosevelt almost certainly would have been on the world telephones, chinning with "Uncle Joe" and talking guardedly with that mild, new quality at No. 10 Downing Street, Clement Attlee. Lacking telephone connections with China, a spate of personal dispatches would have flown between Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt...
...Winchester Castle, "frankly perspiring" white passengers paid friendly visits to Africa-bound Anthropologist Eslanda and her eight-year-old son, Pauli, in their double first-class stateroom. But Eslanda noticed reluctance to discuss "the all-important subject of Native affairs," recognized her British callers as " 'Deep South' white folks . . . only more so." In Cape Town it was a relief to hear the white telephone operator say: "We hope you both have a pleasant visit, and we hope Mr. Robeson comes out soon." She took them to be "the voice of the little people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa...
...Poles came to discuss the western boundary of their country. Some said that all six wanted it deep in old Germany on the Oder-Neisse line, including Stettin; others that three of the Poles, led by Deputy Vice-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, were more modest. Between Poland's old western boundary and the Oder-Neisse line live some seven million people, the vast majority of whom are German...
...Institute of Radio Engineers was closeted to discuss military secrets. President W. L. Everitt leaned forward with a conspirator's expression and solemnly announced: "Gentlemen, the Army & Navy have now finally given , permission to use the word radar - provided you spell it backwards." Washington has been grinning over this story for weeks. For censorship officers, the story has a double sting: they are well aware that radar has been one of the worst-kept secrets of the war. A favorite gag pictures a mother remarking to her husband: "John, don't you think we ought to tell Junior...