Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Want. Kalinin's prime job is to interpret the people's reactions to Soviet policy makers and to sell Soviet policy to the people. Addressing a group of Communist Party organizers who work among collective farmers, he took grave note of rising Russian dissatisfaction, caused in part by German destruction and the cost of war and in part by a discovery made by millions of Red Army men - men-that every country they entered in Europe had a higher living standard than theirs...
...Government department. Democrats steamrollered them down. Promptly, Maine's Senator Brewster charged that somebody was trying to suppress information. Committee Chairman Alben Barkley replied that he did not think individual members should be permitted to "cruise" around as "private detectives," and the argument ended on that inconclusive note...
...Army was not in a state of revolt. But Russia's rulers were audibly disturbed. President Mikhail Kalinin himself recently took note of returning Red Army men's complaints that they could find nothing to buy. The veterans, he admitted, to a certain extent were impressed by German "petty culture." Then he gave some serious advice to Party propagandists and agitators who would have to deal, among other things, with veterans no longer happy at home...
...Balfour Declaration was a note written in 1917 by Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour. In it, the British Government undertook to "use their best endeavors" to facilitate "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine...
Then, on a soberer note, he sat down and wrote his employes: "Throughout the war, [motor transportation systems] have suffered substantial losses. . . . They have been drowned between millstones, increasing costs of operation . . . because of wages . . . lessened efficiency of labor, increased costs of parts and maintenance . . . inability to obtain new trucks, and the inflexibility of rate structures...