Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening last week the five members of the Executive Committee of the European Economic Cooperation Committee were ushered into the green-tinted library of the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Their job had been to lay a practical groundwork under the Marshall Plan. They were in a mellow mood. Their report on the 16 participating nations' reconstruction needs and measures was ready for signing. But their U.S. hosts for the evening (Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas, Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery) soon routed any optimism. For two hours Clayton handed out "friendly advice...
What most Frenchmen feared was that the day Premier Ramadier was turned out, the showdown between De Gaulle and Communism would begin. A former Resistance worker voiced the mood of many plain men last week: "Now we enjoy our food and our wine and the sunshine on the coast-as long as we have them to enjoy-and we can only hope that our children can learn enough to do better. We are finished...
...delegate summed up the prevailing mood at the Grand Palais: "Europe will have to work harder. The United States will have to ... [help] fill the inevitable gap during the next four years. But it's no good sending dollars; they return to America like homing pigeons...
...slim & sporty Maharaja of Indore at his air-conditioned palace. The doors (covered with jewel-like paintings in the Persian manner) were made of aluminum, stood eleven feet high, were large enough for the Maharaja to ride a horse through comfortably, if he's ever in the mood...
President Truman was in a reminiscent mood at his V-J day press conference. Someone asked him about the decision to use the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and he replied with a little story...