Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Dr. Goldman last week: "The first stage of the conference is finished. The Arabs have unanimously rejected the British Government's federal plan. Now it is logical that a second stage will start in which the conference will discuss other things including partition . . . and then we will come...
...military situation was reflected in the attitude of the Communist negotiators in Nanking. The Communists refused to participate in a five-man committee to discuss a coalition Government (i.e., a national council). Instead they suddenly proposed to discuss a cease-fire order through a three-man committee set up last January, dormant since June and now composed of General George Marshall, Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai and the National Government's General Hsu Yung-chang. By cease-fire the Communists meant the return to Communist control of all territory won by the Government in the past six weeks. They...
...fifth column for Japan or as mercenary shock troops. The Soviet failure to repatriate Japanese prisoners was clearly a violation of the Potsdam Agreement. General Mac-Arthur had offered ships and aid to bring the missing Japanese home. But negotiations had broken down when the Russians refused to discuss military prisoners...
Esthetes & Extroverts. The practical achievements of the 13-year-old Conant-Harvard partnership have been considerable. One widely known example is last year's report on General Education in a Free Society (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). That $60,000, 267-page report, which did not even discuss Harvard until page 177, had an immediate impact on American education. It was President Conant who set the sights for that far-ranging study...
Among professors of English, the University of California's George R. Stewart is a rare bird. He can battle with Beowulf in Old English, discuss the drift of allegory in The Faerie Queene, or lecture gravely on the crime of the dangling participle...