Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suppose, for example, that tomorrow the U.S., Britain and France should sit down with Russia to talk about the German problem. The U.S. would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
...note: "The U.S. Government categorically asserts that it is in occupation of its sector in Berlin with free access thereto as a matter of established right ... It will not be induced by threats, pressures or other actions to abandon these rights . . . The U.S. Government is therefore obliged to insist that . . . traffic between the Western zones and Berlin be fully restored. There can be no question of delay...
...suggested Communist Minister Hertta Kuusinen-Leino last week, to let anti-Communists run the country just because they had won the election (TIME, July 12). "We would do better outside the government as opposition," the lady minister confessed, "but we put the country's interests first and therefore insist on taking part...
...that everything always went smoothly. To keep the Marquise Cassatti happy, the maítre d'hôtel himself had to fetch live rabbits for the two boa constrictors she kept in her bathroom. Once the management had to insist that the Countess de Salverte move out because her pet lion had grown too big. To survive World War II, the Ritz had to knuckle to such boorish guests as Hermann Göring. It salved its conscience by wheedling more food from the Nazis than it needed, supplying a lower-priced restaurant for Frenchmen around the corner...
Another agricultural cult popular with city gardeners is "organic farming." Organic matter is an important component of soils, says Dr. Kellogg, "but the advocates of the organic matter doctrine go very far. They insist that ... the usual chemical fertilizers are downright poisonous to soils; that the liberal use of compost gives special qualities to plants-they will be free of insects and diseases; and that animals, or even people, will be ever so much more healthy by eating plants grown 'the organic way.' " Most of this is silly, says Dr. Kellogg politely. Organic compost is no cureall...