Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sovereignty was also demonstrated in the Commission on Human Rights, which was considering a worldwide Bill of Rights. Russia's Alexei Pavlov promptly cried that it represented interference with Russian sovereignty. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak summed up the West's position when he cried: "We fear you when you preach this antiquated, obsolete doctrine of national sovereignty...
That sentence summarized Western Europe's fear. In the French National Defense Ministry's Salle des Maréchaux, where Napoleon used to brief his marshals, the five Western European nations last week decided to set up a watch on the Rhine. Implementing the Brussels alliance (TIME, March 15), the defense ministers of Great Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg met and agreed on common measures against aggression-i:e., against a possible Russian attack. They set up "permanent international command . . . under a permanent military chairman...
Timid, red-nosed Grigor Moisil, Rumanian ambassador to Turkey, may have longed to do much the same thing. He heard that Foreign Minister Ana Pauker had purged his good friend Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, and lived in fear that he himself would be called home. Last week, within a 24-hour span, four announcements in Ankara gave a clue to his state of mind: 1) the Turkish government announced that Grigor had decided to quit his post and move to Switzerland; 2) the Rumanian embassy announced that he had died of eating poisoned mushrooms; 3) the Rumanian embassy announced that...
...rebels lobbed sixty 75-mm. shells into the town. A direct hit through the window of a nearby hospital killed two soldiers and two nurses. The next day Americans asked why the city's lights had not been turned off during the shelling. The answer was fear of looting by neighbors. The Greek army's artillery did not answer the guerrillas until half an hour after the shelling had ended...
Language for thirst and fear, did most to Prevent a panic. It is the crime that...