Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Draws & Jams. Russia lost again in an effort to postpone the struggle for seats in the all-important Security Council, but with a little luck fared better in the voting. Elected for two years were Australia, Brazil and Poland; for one year, The Netherlands, Egypt and Mexico. Poland, a Soviet candidate, tied with The Netherlands in the voting for a two-year seat, won it in a drawing. Russia helped defeat Canada and elect Australia...
Hottest Rumors. Suddenly rumors swept the meeting that General Dwight D. Eisenhower would accept UNO's Secretary-Generalship. Britain floated the Eisenhower rumors in an effort to head off a fight between its own candidate, Canada's quietly competent Ambassador to the U.S., Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, and Norway's Lie, who might again be supported by Russia. Poland set adrift a rumor for Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace...
...Nixon: the State Department is trying to exclude Russia from participating in the search and seizure of German assets in countries outside southeast Europe. State: the division of effort was specifically embodied in the Potsdam Agreements, was accepted by all parties, is obviously the only practical way to proceed...
...reigning imperial household,' said Hiromichi, 'has aggressed on me and my rights and on the rest of the world. ... I consider Hirohito a war criminal. MacArthur is heaven's messenger to Japan. . . . My father, who died in 1915, left a will to exert every effort to realize the family's true place. Until his wish is carried out . . . my father will have no grave, no altar...
...historian will find very little that is useful in it, because the reporting was a lot of feature stuff. The primary duty of reporters is to tell the truth until it becomes dangerous. There wasn't much of that. Any honest effort to get the real news went out the window with the arrival of voluntary censorship, which was an idiotic idea, a lot of poppycock. The papers fell all over each other thinking up schemes for hobbling themselves that even the military hadn't thought...