Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as the U.N.'s General Assembly gathered in New York, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles gave a report on the state of the world. The gist: not good...
...Egypt indicated that it might listen to the Kremlin's siren song. But now that the British have agreed to quit the Suez and the U.S. has promised $80 million in aid, Egypt's young military junta sent a statement to all foreign correspondents in Cairo. Its gist; Egypt regards itself as a friend to the West, though it is unwilling to join a defense alliance...
...under Communist wraps, Otto John faced a press conference in East Berlin that was open to Western correspondents. No more nervous than usual. Adenauer's former security chief read a six-page statement into a battery of microphones, then freely answered questions from 300 correspondents for an hour. Gist of his statement: he had defected to the Communists because "the Nazis and the militarists in West Germany are again in power" and "the Bonn-Paris axis is only a tool of the Americans." Americans, he said he had learned on his recent visit to Washington, are "downright hysterically...
...pastoral letter from a Roman Catholic cardinal kicked up a flurry of feeling last week over the sensitive subject of Protestant-Catholic relations. Chicago's Cardinal Archbishop, Samuel Stritch, 66, sent out a carefully worded communication to all Roman Catholic churches in Illinois. Its gist: Catholics should not participate, even as observers, in the Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Evanston...
...Come and see for yourself." That was the gist of an eager invitation sent last month by the Communist government of China to the British Labor Party. The Laborites hemmed and hawed (as well they might, since it was one of their number, Party Secretary Morgan Phillips, who first suggested the idea), but eventually, eight prominent Socialists were elected to make the tour. Leader of the expedition, which will start out in late summer: ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee...