Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pact creating an advisory European Central Inland Transport Organization. This was in some ways broader, in others narrower than Truman's idea. It was broader because it included railways and highways as well as waterways; it was narrower because it affected only immediate operational problems, did not establish the political principle of internationalized transport. Russia, joining in the operational agreement, wanted more time to study the broader principle...
...what may ultimately prove to have been something about as obscure and unimportant to the world of practical things as the first fantastic puttering around with atomic power. In 1858, when miracles began to be reported at Lourdes, psychology and medicine were little better prepared to investigate and establish the facts accurately than they were in the time of Jeanne d'Arc. If Pierrette is really comparable to Bernadette, then science has an opportunity compared to which a total eclipse of the sun is commonplace - or else religion has the prospect of another Lourdes...
...Case. To establish the right, British negotiators in Washington produced figures on Britain's contribution to the war. Making ample allowances for the difference in U.S. and British resources and population, the British claimed that, proportionately, their losses in killed and missing were 3½ times those of the U.S.; wartime deterioration of their capital plant was two or three times as great; their sales of foreign securities (to pay for war imports) were 35 times greater than those...
...ringing affirmation of an old policy, the Generalissimo pledged the legalization of all political parties and the abolition of wartime restrictions on free press, speech and association. "Only thus," he declared, "can we tread the path of democracy traversed by the United States and Great Britain and establish a model democratic state in the Far East...
...displeased with the new democratic arrangements of eastern Europe and who are now dreaming once again of setting up a cordon sanitaire against the U.S.S.R. must be encouraged. The tendencies of the democratic forces in France, Italy and other western European states are well-known. They are trying to establish close collaboration with all democratic states in the interest of ensuring universal security. These tendencies apparently displease certain personalities in London. The tune now played reminds one of Chamberlain and Daladier...