Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being achieved because of the suspicious attitude of some great powers on the right of any great power to raise its voice on a problem involving it. To put it bluntly: Russians have been told that there might be some cases which they should not be allowed to discuss. They are not willing to have that spirit of suspicion implanted in the very first stages of the building of the security organization...
...subscribed to the U.S. and British rule that the Italians could communicate with other countries only through the Allied Control Commission. But the Russians, sensing the Italians' deep resentment, simply let it be known that they had business with Italy apart from military matters, that Russian representatives would discuss such business directly with the Italians...
Germany. When Germany was invaded, there was still no completed plans for its occupation, said Dewey, although General Eisenhower had warned last January that the U.S. would have to deal with that problem in 1944. And when President Roosevelt met with Churchill at Quebec to discuss such plans, he took along not Cordell Hull but the Secretary of the Treasury, "whose qualifications on military and international affairs are still a closely guarded military secret. . . . Germany's Propaganda Minister Goebbels has seized upon the whole episode to terrify the Germans into fanatical resistance. On the basis of our Treasury...
...subject he declined to discuss was his own recent work. His last work of any importance was published in 1929. Everyone is waiting for his eighth symphony. He wouldn't talk at all about this; he said, 'I am my sternest critic. I won't discuss work I may discard...
Much of this subtly simple story is told through leisured close-ups of faces so well cast, in the Moscow Art Theater tradition, that they embody nations, passions, methods, doubts, like great restrained cartoons. These faces discuss the situation, and advance the story, with considerable dramatic intelligence. Napoleon's occupation of Moscow, and his catastrophic retreat, are child's play compared with their handling in Tolstoy's great novel War and Peace. But the retreat does have a certain grandeur, resembling that of the florid, romantic, 19th-Century military art from which its cinematic style is apparently...