Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During World War I Jinnah was a conspicuous worker for Moslem-Hindu unity, persuaded the Congress Party and Moslem League to hold joint sessions, used as his slogan "a free and federated India." In 1917 he could still attack the idea which later became his obsession. "This [fear of Hindu domination] is a bogey," he told League members, ". . . to scare you away from the cooperation with the Hindus which is essential for the establishment of self-government...
...Patton's men, and later worked on the Potsdam declaration. But his biggest war job was in Washington. He had to get up at 5:30 a.m., to bang out a daily top-secret newspaper on enemy capabilities and intentions-required breakfast reading for President Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Later, for JANIS (Joint Army Navy Intelligence Strategy), he edited a 53-volume encyclopedia on potential invasion areas, written by 400 professors and assorted experts. Says McGovern: "It was right hard to get those highbrows to part with their beloved footnotes." Even abridged, the average volume was still too long to please King, Leahy or Marshall. On learning that it was 900-odd pages, they would shudder: "Oh my God! Boil it down to three or four...
Perfidious, but like Us. Now & then Editor Ingersoll relents a bit, acknowledges that Eisenhower did a fairly good job as a conciliator, all but cries out that some of his best friends are British. The joint management of World War II, says he, was on the whole "spectacularly efficient . . . the most effective example of management of allied armed forces in the history of warfare." The British, moreover, are at bottom not so bad, and much "like us." The catch is that they always act in what seems to be their national interest, irritating practice to the U.S., which also wants...
...Mike Monroney, Representative from Oklahoma, also objected to Finletter's treatment of Executive-Legislative conflict. "Government," he said, "should be by conflict." With regard to positive Congressional action, Monroney insisted that "Congress has provided positive leadership." He concluded the forum with a resume of the "Report of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress," outlining the basic changes considered in the report...