Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians in London would negotiate as hard as they could to keep Eritrea and Somaliland, might be content there as elsewhere to see joint trusteeships which would maintain an "open door to Africa." Of Trees & Brooks. The Trieste issue had descended to a technical problem much too minute to be handled at the Truman-Stalin-Attlee level. The city would almost certainly be internationalized, but its ultimate fate would depend on where lines were drawn in its hinterland. Racial and historical factors moved strings back & forth over detailed maps of Venetia Julia province. The watercourses were most important, because...
...indeed. To the microphone went Prime Minister Clement Attlee himself. But he had only cold comfort to give. Said he: Britain cannot shirk her obligation to maintain forces in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East; hence the Bevin plan for gradual demobilization must stand. Two days later, Isaacs again endorsed the plan. "Hell," said a colonel over from Germany, "these aren't the men we voted...
...House of Peers, he addressed a joint session of the legislature. Tears welled in his eyes and euphemisms from his lips as he spoke not of defeat or surrender but of "cessation of hostilities . . . termination of the war . . . extraordinary measure. . . ." His command to his subjects: "remain cool, maintain self-composure, exercise patience and circumspection . . . win the confidence of the world . . . make manifest the innate glory of Japan's national policy...
...industry [must set up] its own system of controlling commercial excesses . . . [and thereby] maintain [its] full editorial rights and responsibilities. It can be done...
Because the Zaibatsu exercise such control over Japan's economy and would cheerfully jettison the militarists, the dangerous tendency, Roth believes, is for the U.S. to leave Japan's private affairs largely to them. By doing so the U.S. would certainly "maintain unchanged the internal conditions that were basically responsible for launching Japan on her campaign of conquest...