Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just taken over from Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. With some of his staff, Kluge drove to a spot on a lonely road near Avranches in northwestern France. There he waited, hour after hour, for a party of U.S. Third Army officers with whom he had secretly arranged to discuss surrender. They did not appear. Fearing betrayal, Kluge hurried back to his headquarters. Awaiting him there was an order to report to Hitler in Berlin. Kluge got into a car, swallowed poison and died on the way to an airfield near Metz...
Nerves were a little frayed, delegates were wearied by eight weeks of legalism, bewildered by sentences such as one from the debate last week: "The Council can only discuss whether a dispute can be discussed and can only investigate whether it would be investigated." The charter draft showed the effect of this sort of talk. Dean Virginia Gildersleeve thought it a shame that the Pre amble, at least, was not rid of legal writing so that it would be an inspiration to the world. Fraser agreed. He suggested that the Preamble be given to Poet Archibald MacLeish, Assistant Secretary...
...Army no credit. Well known by now is the story of General George Patton threatening to have Stars & Stripes banned from his Third Army as long as Mauldin's unkempt heroes appeared in it. Patton and Mauldin were told by Eisenhower's headquarters to discuss the matter. Said Mauldin after the conference: "I came out with all my hide on." Stars & Stripes continued to circulate in the Third Army...
...Powers at the conference yielded on many points to expand the Assembly's functions. The Assembly can discuss anything. It can make recommendations for the peaceful adjustment of situations which might impair peace "regardless of origin." The only exception -and an important one - is that the Assembly cannot recommend action on matters already taken up by the Security Council...
...call a joint session of the Legislative Assembly and Council of State (upper house of the Indian Legislature) and announce London's new proposals for breaking the long-standing deadlock between Indian nationalists and the British Raj; 3) meet with Indian political leaders of all parties to discuss the proposals...