Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Indonesian mess was almost providential in its timing. Joyfully, the Security Council dropped the Greek situation to cope with a situation cut more to the U.N. size. With unprecedented speed the Council voted (8-0) a stern resolution: the Council "calls upon" The Netherlands and the Indonesian Republic "to...
¶ French Communists were tirelessly playing on French fear of a strong Germany. But Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, bolstered by a recent vote of confidence, was reportedly willing to discuss a U.S. proposal for upping Ruhr coal and steel production under a plan of internationalized management. For Bidault, this was...
The Attlee Approach. Attlee had other plans. Already dangerously low imports would be further cut-and that meant even less food and fripperies for austerity-greyed Britons. Not only luxury imports, like films and tobacco, would be reduced to save dollars, but raw material purchases as well. That meant a...
Certain statements attributed to me are completely unjustifiable. For example: "Dr. McFarland concludes that modern planes . . . are . . . a generally unsatisfactory means of travel." Further on: "The airplane itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks." The article is concluded: "Anyway, 300 m.p.h., he thinks, is plenty fast enough." These statements...
By 10:15 a.m., all was over.* Labor had won. The Commons rejected the most important of the Lords' amendments, sent back the entire bill with the traditional Norman French notation: "Ceste bille est remise aux seigneurs avecque des raisons" (i.e., returned to the Lords for further debate).