Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Would aggression against a country, by infiltration within the country, be an armed attack?" If it were purely an internal revolutionary activity, said Acheson, .that would not be an armed attack. But if it were a revolution inspired, armed and directed from the outside, that would be a different matter. The pact, he said, didn't spell it out and shouldn't-when you come to real situations you ought to be able to have some latitude in deciding them...
Would he "discuss the question of moral obligation to use armed force in resisting attack on one of the members?" That was the heart of the matter. Hold your hats, the Secretary warned, there's been a lot of loose thought on the distinction between moral and legal obligation. Decent people usually carry out their contracts because of moral obligation. Some decent people default in their contracts because they get in trouble one way or another, and then they go to court...
Where It Hurt. There was no doubt that from now on the coalition would be an imposing force in the Senate. Last week, having won on filibuster and civil rights, it also kicked Harry Truman where it always hurts him most-in a matter involving his friendships. The President had nominated his poker-pal, Mon C. Wallgren, ex-governor of Washington, as head of the National Security Resources Board. An amiable mediocrity, Wallgren had no visible qualifications for the job of planning the military, industrial and civilian mobilization of the U.S. On the Senate Armed Services Committee, Virginia...
...matter of hard fact, both Osorio and Gálvez probably preferred hard-boiled Somoza to "Spiritual Socialist" Arévalo. But both were enjoying governmental honeymoons ("Glory to God in Heaven and Gálvez in Honduras!" burbled a Tegucigalpa poster), and both were playing it cagey. They proclaimed their respective countries friendly to Guatemala "as to all nations," pleaded ignorance of any plans to meet Arévalo, and let it go at that...
...world's youngest mother is generally conceded to be Lina Medina, of Peru (TIME, May 29, 1939), who gave birth to a 6-lb. boy, by Caesarean section, when she was four years and eight months old. The youngest U.S. mother is a matter of dispute. The American Medical Association, which keeps fairly haphazard, uninvestigated records of such events, has listed the youngest U.S. mother as a ten-year-old Illinois girl who gave birth to a full-term baby...