Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall-Douglas conversation was brief. "Douglas, I'm calling to ask you if you'll accept the ambassadorship to Britain." "You take my breath away. I'll have to think about it." "What is your immediate reaction, Douglas?" "My immediate response is favorable. I'd like four days to think about it." On the fourth day Lew accepted...
Sammy-who was smaller, but earnest beyond his years-looked up and said gravely: "I'm not going to be responsible." But eventually Sammy was swayed, and the other boy used the borrowed nickel to buy a copy of the United Nations Charter...
...morning of the wedding, the linotyper, on his way home from work, paused amid the happy, shabby throngs. He answered a question, musingly: "I'm a good trade unionist and a Labor Party man, but the royal family means something. My father saw Victoria once, as close as you and me are now. Those two are getting married-they carry it on. I suppose it's having something steady in your life. And God knows there isn't much that's steady these days...
...Communist strikes and violence were numbing the country. More openly than ever, the Reds admitted that their main objective was to block aid from the U.S. In this crisis, who could form a government? President Vincent Auriol asked 75-year-old Socialist Léon Blum to try. But M. Blum, it seemed, was living in an old man's dream-the dream of a troisième force (third force) which would hold the democratic bastions against Gaullism and Communism alike. In his request to the Assembly for a vote of confidence, Léon Blum antagonized...
...M. Auriol then turned to a highly regarded man of the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans), 61-year-old Finance Minister Robert Schuman. M. Schuman roundly denounced the Communists and no one else. Consequently no one voted against him but the "Cocos" and a few mavericks. Py a vote of 412 to 184, Robert Schuman became France's new Premier...