Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London had three answers: 1) good will: the three foreign ministers had made up their minds to understand each other's mutual problems; 2) good sense: they were prepared to discuss any question that anyone wanted to bring up-though not to battle everything through to a final decision; 3) good tactics: Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden pleased the Russians by putting military problems ahead of everything else...
...three-story, brindle-yellow villa at an obscure and dirty Italian town. The men were King Vittorio Emanuele, who is 74 and has ruled for 43 years, and Marshal Pietro Badoglio, who is 72 and has been his King's most obedient follower. The question they met to discuss was whether the King should abdicate, or the Marshal should resign as the head of what passes currently for the Italian Government...
...word of my statement was intended as an attack on Great Britain. . . . I must say, in all candor, that our British allies have become unduly sensitive if an American citizen and Senator cannot discuss the operations and policies of his own government without raising a storm of furor and resentment. . . . Any lasting world peace must have as its keystone a complete understanding between the United States and the British Empire. But this cooperation and understanding cannot be had except upon a basis of equality and frank and fair dealings. . . . Frank discussion will always dissipate the clouds of suspicion...
...gracious was Count Sforza's liberal Partito d'Azione (Action Party), which charged that the Pope "has always been a reactionary favoring an absolute and paternal government, even after Mussolini's fall." Said the Action Party: "By means of a Parliament and the press we must discuss with the people ways of restricting the Church's influence. This might be done by encouraging other forms of religion...
Hollington Tong plans to have the cubs publish a newspaper. U.S. newsmen in Chungking last week were wondering how closely such a sheet could resemble a free press. Chungking is as bound by censorship as it is by mud. Its newspapers have been forbidden to discuss such glaring but officially nonexistent topics as inflation...