Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman has been in favor of the merger for a long time. Last week he turned down Navy Secretary Forrestal's plea to throw the whole thing to an umpire commission. He also confided to friends that he would ask Congress to pass a merger law which would establish an independent air force and put Army, Navy and Air under one Cabinet member...
Their specific suggestion was the establishment of a special commission under the United Nations Organization which would tackle the problem methodically. And they laid out the steps for the commission to follow. It would first arrange for the free exchange of basic scientific information among all countries. Then it would establish controls to see that atomic energy is used only for peaceful purposes the world over...
...Whatever laws the Allies were trying to establish for the purpose of the Nürnberg trials, most of them had not existed at the time the deeds were committed. Yet, since the days of Cicero, jurists have condemned ex post facto punishment...
Majority or Minority. To anxious Arabs and Jews this development held important corollaries which Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin candidly underlined in London. Said he: "We never undertook to establish a Jewish state [in Palestine], but we did undertake to establish a Jewish home, and that we must fulfill." Bevin had taken his stand on a literal interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration ("The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . . ."). Said an Arab spokesman in Cairo: "We are happy, but we can't afford to show...
...from settled. Chinese look upon Manchuria, with its Japanese-developed heavy industry and its strategic position, as the key to a strong China. The Central Government was still negotiating with the Communists for an overall settlement ; if that failed, Chungking would fight a major civil war to re-establish Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria. In the long run, the Central Government armies, especially the crack U.S.-trained divisions, looked like more than a match for the Red guerrillas...