Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour and a half later the conference ended; Malik, Chauvel and Cadogan departed. Less than an hour later Malik called back by telephone. Russia had agreed to final details on the lifting of the blockade...
...stood stiffly and watched the display, a hint of tears in his eyes. Overhead, in a brilliant, cloudless sky, 60 Thunderbolt fighters formed a gigantic C-L-A-Y as they roared past, and then, joined by whooshing F80 jet fighters, they swept low over the grandstand for the final salute...
...American correspondents had their own final drill with him. Leaning comfortably against the upholstery of his private railroad car, General Clay looked back on his four grinding, controversial years as a 20th Century proconsul. A unified Germany, he thought, is now inevitable, but there must be another five to 20 years of gradually tapering Allied occupation. As for the Russians, he warned that an East-West agreement on Berlin should not be confused with "a permanent solution to the struggle between communism and democracy." Said Clay: "I don't think that implies war. War would never solve...
...Holy War." The first opposing witness seemed more apt to help than hinder final passage. Henry Wallace fidgeted and squirmed as he charged that the State Department had kept mum on Russia's offer to end the Berlin blockade for fear it would spoil the treaty's chances. (No one thought to ask him why the Russians took part in such a deal.) Henry Wallace rattled on. The treaty, he cried, was "not an instrument of defense but a military alliance designed for aggression." Furthermore, it was a deal backed by U.S. big business, the Roman Catholic hierarchy...
Help from the South. It might have been all over then & there if New York City's Vito Marcantonio had not popped up with a demand that a final, printed version of the bill be read. The maneuver put off the final vote until next...