Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yelling on the Fairground." Blum was helped not a whit by Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, who tactlessly made explicit what everyone knew was implicit in the Blum mission-the contention that unless France got U.S. aid she would likely turn to Communism. Said Bidault: if France does not get a big loan "we would almost inevitably be compelled to organize our economic policy in other directions." The world knew "other directions" meant Moscow-ward...
...London and Moscow would accept. Vishinsky was willing to drop his charges against Britain-provided that this Russian retreat was not mentioned in the Council's official resolution. Bevin took a long, hard look at the record, decided it spoke for itself, and withdrew his demand for an explicit "not guilty." The final statement, accepted over much relieved smiling and handshaking, merely informed the world that a debate had taken place...
...strife, to seek unity of her dissident factions. President Truman put on official record the new, clear policy which Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in China, has wanted, and which Special Envoy George Marshall had helped frame (TIME, Dec. 10). Two major points were made even more explicit: 1) U.S. forces will remain in China to help Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government take over control of North China and Manchuria from the Japanese-but not to intervene in China's internal strife; 2) after an end of the civil war, unification should be arranged...
...Dostler was shot because he had ordered the execution of 15 American soldiers who were captured behind German lines in March 1944 while trying to blow up a railroad tunnel. Dostler's defense was that he acted on Hitler's orders. The court held that, even with explicit instructions from above, to shoot uniformed men without trial is against the code...
...judging the words by the realities. There, the reiterated refusal of the U.S. to recognize "any government imposed upon any nation by the force of any foreign power" was all too clear to the Russians. Elsewhere, in focal Germany, in restive Asia, words and numbered paragraphs which seemed explicit enough to Americans at home would seem vaguely general to the Russians, Britons, Chinese, et al. trying to evaluate them, and to the U.S. officials charged with applying them. Still needed were clear directives, clearly integrated actions to make the policy intelligible at the point where it must work...