Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was the kind of work that friendly, unassuming Philip Jessup had been tackling ably but not dramatically most of his adult life. Jessup served overseas in World War I in the infantry, spent his next 20 years becoming an expert on international law. As a professor of international law...
Why was the report belatedly released and why did the Army make such an occasion of it, when, after all, Sorge's prewar spy ring had worked against the Axis, not the U.S.? MacArthur's headquarters thought that it was a timely reminder of a fact which most...
Nine Hungarian consular and diplomatic officials in Washington, New York and Cleveland resigned in protest against the Mindszenty trial. Catholic pickets, carrying signs denouncing Communist Hungary, knelt in New York's City Hall plaza, holding their rosaries in pleading gesture. A delegation of demonstrators called on Bela Belassa, acting...
Lange also learned from Acheson that the U.S. was not certain just how much armament help Norway could get if she joined the Atlantic pact; the whole problem of allocating arms to Western Europe was still under study.
The next day, St. Laurent attended Low Mass at Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral, then went to lunch as guest of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. When he left for home (by train, because sleet prevented flying over the St. Lawrence), St. Laurent could safely leave the...