Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direct testimony went on that afternoon and most of the next day. When he had concluded he had covered a great part of his life and had reiterated his accusation: that Hiss had willingly stolen and copied Government reports for a Russian intelligence officer named Boris Bykov, and that he, Chambers, had acted as their intermediary...
Heads Against the Wall? Washington believed that the story in U.N. World was based on a plant, probably by the Polish or Czech delegation at U.N. Its purpose: to help persuade U.S. opinion that the Atlantic pact was unnecessary. The Atlantic pact is still a great concern of Russian propagandists; a recent Krokodil cartoon showed Uncle Sam launching human torpedoes-Winston Churchill and John Foster Dulles-from a submarine labeled Atlantic Pact...
...would continue. Its issues, little understood in the U.S., might turn out to be more important than anything on which the Big Four Foreign Ministers might agree. Europe's political future and its military defense were closely tied up with its economic prospects. Would Europe develop toward a great unified area of free trade? Or would each nation protect itself with barriers which would strengthen the parts but weaken the whole...
...houses to the big, red brick Cliffs Hotel on the upper-class north shore, there's a sense of disquiet, restiveness, uncertainty. Gone are the days when delegates huddled in eager groups in cafes and lounges, heads thrust forward in lively argument, eyes shining in anticipation of a great crusade. Gone are the more recent days when, flushed with new power, they sank into easy chairs and sprawled in happy discussion, secure in the knowledge that an order to their parliamentary steamroller would change the face of Britain. Today's delegates are bewildered, disappointed and fearful. The eager...
...from downtown Mexico to his palace atop Chapultepec, three miles away. It was called the Calzada del Emperador (Emperor's Highway) until the empire's fall. Republicans renamed it Paseo de la Reforma in honor of their laws separating church & state. Later, the rich lined it with great mansions; France's best landscape designer was imported to make it look like the Champs Elys...