Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Committee: "I have never seen any logic in maintaining diplomatic relations with Russia, for instance, while refusing diplomatic relations with Spain ... I do not approve Spain's form of government. Neither do I approve Russia's form of government...
...Republicans' Arthur Vandenberg agreed. "I have never felt," he said, "that extending ambassadorial recognition was in any sense an approval by the United States of the governments of the countries to which it was extended. If that were the case, there are about a half-dozen embassies I would like to see closed...
...introduction of security procedures into nonsecret fields," said AEC Chairman David Lilienthal, "would establish a precedent of grave and far-reaching consequence to our scientific and educational system." Nonetheless, the fact remained: the AEC had dished out scholarships to train young men who, because of party membership, could never be eligible to work for the AEC or, for that matter, for any other Government agency...
...highest tax rates in the nation, rigged assessments, discouraged businesses, factories deserted by fleeing industry, a city turned into a huge patchwork of slums by political graft. Left to historians was the problem of discovering, if they could, the exact details of how Frank Hague, on a salary never bigger than the mayor's $8,500 a year, became several times a millionaire. Left to Frank Hague were his declining years-to spend in his suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, in his $7,000-a-year apartment in one of Jersey City's few good residential...
...Russians, the West had a slogan of its own. The slogan was "freedom." The West wanted German unity, too, but only on democratic terms. It certainly wanted peace, but not at any price. Said Britain's Ernest Bevin: "We may even be called 'comrades' again. You never know." Then he added grimly that Russia was still talking peace while carrying on a "policy of promoting unsettlement all around...