Word: memoranda
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...been discussing endlessly in the big room at Lancaster House in London. U.S. Ambassador John Winant, Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev and Sir William Strang, the three members of the European Advisory Commission, had held scores of meetings, examined hundreds of proposals, dictated thousands of words of notes, memoranda, dispatches. But to the eagerly watching world the three men seemed no nearer than ever to accomplishing their task-the drawing up of surrender terms for defeated Germany. London's well-informed Economist suspected that the Allies had failed to agree on a joint policy for the German armistice. Sternly...
This week the tension eased. Small showers of memoranda began dropping on the desks of military and civil leaders. Winston Churchill was getting well, was working again...
...student of European history and an authority on Germany and its people, Fay was called upon to prepare memoranda for Colonale House, Wilson's closest friend and adviser. These were to be used in the Versailles peace conference; he ruefully admits today that his suggestions were not carried...
...really going to clean Axis spies out of the capital. The Government had limited Axis diplomatic-code cables to 100 words a day, and the Argentine press played up testimony on the activities of the spy ring which left no doubt in the minds of Argentines. The well documented memoranda of U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour (TIME, Nov. 16) seemed to have been taken seriously and in good faith...
Belatedly Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, now engaged in a Nazi espionage cleanup based on U.S. State Department memoranda similar to that recently sent Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), cabled Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The Argentine people, said he, watched "with solidarity and interest the efforts made by the great and friendly nation in safeguarding the security of the Americas...