Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly: ¶Is a sort of town meeting of the world which can discuss anything, make recommendations to the Security Council and the member nations on almost anything. CJ Holds U.N.'s fragile purse strings. <¶Supervises U.N.'s subsidiary agencies, such as the Economic & Social Council (material progress and human betterment), and the not-yet-established
...discuss Mr. Wallace's proposal that the United States should be more generous toward Russia. I did say that it might be important that such compromises as were actually concluded between the two countries should be generous to the European peoples directly concerned, and that they should be based on a willingness of both sides to see each other grow in prosperity, rather than on a mutual effort to increase each other's difficulties. In this connection I referred to the suggestions after the Paris Conference that a broader approach to peace-making was needed, as expressed by Britain...
...from Radcliffe), its tradition dating back four centuries. His reclining years, Schlesinger writes, were spent among his test tubes and his friends. Yale University conferred on him the degree, Doctor of Everything. And among the many admirers who spent Sunday evenings at his feet, listening to the eminent man discuss his favorite subject, General Education in a Free Society, was Robert Hutchins, of Chicago, who later became something of an educator in his own right...
Currently in the United States at the invitation of the New York Herald Tribune Forum, Crossman will discuss tonight "Britain, Palestine, and the Middle East." Professor Carl J. Friedrich will be program chairman...
...more personal, friendly working relationship with other statesmen which Russian spokesmen are now creating, offers little encouragement to the protagonists of World War III. Russia, while as yet making no major concessions, is demonstrating an increasing willingness to "talk things over." And when nations are willing to discuss their problems and give ear to one another's grievances, the chances for successful agreement are incalculably multiplied...