Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian proposals for the Soviet-Rumanian frontier showed that Moscow would not insist on sole control of the Danube delta...
...Soviet-oriented Azerbaijan announced that it would not insist on total independence from the Iranian Government...
...Hector McNeil, Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated it most clearly: "We may be without cash. We may be much less than the power we were even six years ago. . . . Moral currency must be reestablished. If we [no longer] have the power to coerce and to dominate . . . I insist that this country have the ability to lead morally. . . . One appeasement in any generation is one too many...
Soothing Syrup. In domestic policy the new Communist line is equally placatory. Thorez insists that the present stage of French development calls for a democratic regime and that the only ambition of the Communist Party is to be the most democratic of French parties. It follows, he says, that the French Communist Party will govern only if it gets the support of a majority of the French people. On nationalization of industry, the last Assembly went almost as far as the Communists want to go, except that they would like to see all-rather than some-heavy industry taken over...
...colored Hahnyuh (sea women) who dive for pearls in two-piece bathing suits and goggles. Most men spend their days smoking, gossiping, doing housework. But others, getting dangerous modern ideas, have started working on farms and have muscled in on the local government. The boldest males have even dared insist on wifely fidelity...