Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians promoted the Union on the eve of the Big Three parley? London's Daily Herald offered a clue. The Big Three, it reported, will discuss a common administrative policy for all Germany and an overall German government under Allied control. In any such discussion, Generalissimo Stalin would be way ahead of the game. His part of Germany was the only one with ready-made political parties and a program on which the new Reich might be built...
...earnest of his intentions, the Viceroy released eight Congress leaders interned since 1942, invited chosen representatives of all parties to Simla to discuss his plan. The talks proceeded briskly, but stalled on the clause granting organizational parity to Moslems and caste Hindus. Canny Jinnah balked at the prospect of being outvoted in a Hindu-controlled Council. Hastily the factions adjourned for further consideration...
...arrived home from the wars, changed into a neat blue suit with a discharge button, said to Pittsburgh reporters: "Nothing is important. . . . Let's drop the whole matter." Wife Eleanor, still refusing him a divorce, said, "I won't see him. . . . We have nothing in common to discuss. ... He made his bed; let him lie in it." Back in England, 24-year-old Norah, confident that the Sergeant would send for her and the three surviving, dumplingesque babies, looked forward eagerly to a trip to the U.S.: "They do things on such a bigger scale over there...
...members of that committee when the World Council was tentatively set up in 1937. (Before any permanent organization could be started, war came.) The World Council now includes some 88 denominations in 29 countries. Dr. Cavert hopes that he and his Geneva co-workers can: 1) visit Germany to discuss the place of German churches in the Council; 2) visit Eastern Orthodox churchmen in Greece; 3) study the reconstruction of European churches; 4) aid refugees. Says Sam Cavert: "I think I have the most interesting job in Protestantism...
Again, when the Russians wanted to limit the subjects the General Assembly could discuss, Moscow was notified that if the U.S.S.R. did not back down by noon the next day (June 19) it would be outvoted on the floor of the conference. Promptly at noon, Soviet Chairman Andrei Gromyko backed down...