Word: faits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presence is now a fait accompli, and not all the courts in the Commonwealth can drive him from his sanctuary in the Faculty Club. But his arrival means more for the University than victory over a loud-mouthed Boston politician. It means that academic freedom is still the guiding principle of the men who control Harvard...
There is room--and plenty of it--for discussion of the ways and means of defense and the issue of defense against whom and what. But why not choose a course that is politically feasible and cease sniping at what is fait accompli? Horace Bresler...
...preparing to sell some of our "Flying Fortresses" to Britain. Mr. Willkie was caught napping on the destroyer deal, with no chance to comment until afterwards. Now, with another horse trade in progress behind the scenes, he has a chance to attack something better than an untouchable fait accompli, and score a real hit on the President's dictatorial methods. If his protest against the destroyer deal was sincere, he will surely not let this opportunity go begging...
...reporters know better than to believe him implicitly. What electrified the crowded roomful of correspondents was the audacity with which the deal was consummated: it would not be presented to Congress for approval. A Congressional veto was out of the question. Congress was being told about it as a fait accompli...
...essential is to get rid of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and the entire present administration as quickly as possible. Subtle suggestions of a need for "national unity" in the "crisis of civilization," which are now being employed in an apparent attempt to present America with a third term fait accompli, must be rejected. And in the meantime, those whose daily prayer it is that the war hysteria will not grow to more alarming proportions, will rejoice that a man of demonstrated ability and extraordinary political courage has ranged the guns of his oratory on the side of a calm...