Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visibly (TIME, Oct. 2), the White House V-2 speech seemed to make Tom Dewey actually happy. He listened to Mr. Roosevelt's repudiation of Communist support, and then, with the air of a man who has held back too long, said "I shall be compelled to discuss it quite openly...
...British had come to discuss certain matters with the Russians. Ear-cocking Russians might well have asked: "Shto?"-What? The answer was: Besides the inevitable military conversations, almost certainly Poland, and British-Russian relations in the Balkans and the Mediterranean...
...Maillol was under a cloud. The aged sculptor had exhibited his work to Germans during the occupation. The huge Autumn Salon, which opened during the week, had sent him no invitation to contribute. Aristide Maillol had never followed public events or cared about politics. He refused even to discuss the war. He merely worked on in his Banyuls house, and when plaster became scarce he sent his son to ask the neighborhood dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain's Augustus John...
There was clear evidence of deteriorating relations between the other American republics and the State Department. The firm hand and general know-how on Latin America seemed to have disappeared with the resignation of Diplomats Sumner Welles and Lawrence Duggan. Recently seven Latin American ambassadors met with Hull to discuss the participation of their nations in the development of a world security organization. At the close of the meeting the proud ambassadors told reporters that they had been lectured, had been allowed to say nothing, and treated like schoolchildren. Further, the Latin American leaders now want to call a meeting...
Area No. 2 of the Quebec discussions was on the fate of postwar Germany. Here the two principals kept mum. But it was obvious that a plan for the management of postwar Germany had received much attention. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew through heavy weather to bring a brief case full of British proposals. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau rushed to Quebec, presumably to discuss monetary and economic problems of occupied Europe. And Winston Churchill had with him a close chum, Lord Cherwell, whose genius for reducing difficult problems to clear charts and graphs has recently been applied to matters of currency...