Word: forthright
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Many within the sound of Attlee's voice well knew that top British officials were prepared to negotiate with China about Hong Kong's future, that it might one day be returned to China. Yet at the Prime Minister's forthright statement, both sides of the House cheered...
General Henry H. Arnold is younger (59) but wartime strain has aged him perceptibly. Last week forthright "Hap" Arnold said wearily at a press conference (perhaps his last) that he would retire soon. "I intend to go out and sit under an oak tree and I'll shoot down the first fellow that flies over in an airplane," said the man who built up an air force of 64,591 planes and 2,282,259 airmen...
Jimmy Byrnes, the skilled old master of strong compromise, finally took a hand, wrote a reply that seemed to please all concerned except the Japs and (probably) the Chinese. It was forthright, unmistakable-and it was undoubtedly a crushing blow to Tokyo's peace party. Some 27 hours after Tokyo's offer had first been heard, OWI transmitters in San Francisco, Honolulu, Saipan were broadcasting Byrnes's note (for the U.S., British, Russian and Chinese Governments...
...serious charge: "The recent campaign against myself and my country must have been instigated by foreign and Nazi elements. . . ." In a signed manifesto, 600 leading Argentines branded the anti-Braden campaign as an effort to "sow discord, mistrust . . . and hatred" in a Hitlerian fashion. Newspaper correspondents were even more forthright: they declared that Vice President Juan Domingo PerÓn had started the attack on Braden...
...Able, forthright James Douglas would not have taken the job unless he expected the U.S. to play a stronger, more intelligent hand in Italy...