Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week W. Stuart Symington, Assistant Secretary of War for Air, put in the Air Forces' bid for recognition as the chief instrument of U.S. foreign policy in the air-power age. The Air Forces, said he, would send a flight of B-29 around the world "if the State Department approves." The thinly disguised purpose of the trip would be to "work out technical problems." But the real reason...
Holiday Ahead. Some of these disagreements may well be faked in order to persuade Germans that SED is really not Soviet-controlled. But there could be no doubt that the Russians no longer relied on SED as an instrument of control. They were tightening their grip through other means, such as the top-secret creation of a German zonal police organization (reportedly including a new German secret police...
...having experienced 14 years of foreign invasion and eight years of uninterrupted war, my country is faced now with the problem of national unification. . . . The main difficulty arises from, the fact that a minority political party is in possession of an independent army and makes full use of this instrument to oppose the authority of the established Government...
...Swiss manufacturer developed the Ipsophone, an amazing instrument which...
...laid on the shelf. It will be studied despite the failure of the convention to recommend that it be studied. It will be laid alongside the [Lambeth] Quadrilateral* with a challenge to its opponents to point out wherein it diverges from or fails to safeguard the essentials which that instrument sets forth...