Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a Frenchman who attended the meeting of the five foreign ministers in London that agreed on the new Council: "We did not get exactly what we wanted-an unfettered assembly that could use public opinion to obtain European federation. That would have covered about one-fifth of the way toward federation. What we got in London is about three-quarters of that one-fifth...
...eight-year rap as a major Nazi offender, was really only a second-class Nazi, a German appeals court decided. A fine of 30,000 marks ($9,000) still stood, and he got a solemn warning not to take part in any activities that might mold public opinion. Then the court ordered the return of his confiscated property and his release from prison...
...home last week, Walter Gieseking, one of the five greatest living pianists,* huddled close to a small iron stove. He wrote a statement for the German press: "The German people may not understand what has happened in New York . . . They might think all America was demonstrating." But, in his opinion, "the demonstrators were only a small minority, just excited people...
...executive director, Dr. Glenn L. Archer, former dean of the Law School of Kansas' Washburn University, was encouraged by the success of last week's meeting. In an "Address to All Americans," his organization declared that recent events "have aroused a substantial body of public opinion to the danger that threatens religious liberty as guaranteed by the separation of church and state . . . In a recent public pronouncement issued by the National Catholic Welfare Conference and signed by American cardinals, archbishops and bishops, the hierarchy brands the separation of church and state a 'shibboleth of doctrinaire secularists...
...explained that he was continuing the medical examination to clear up several loose ends, but other than that he would make no definite statement. At present, most widely felt medical opinion is that some form of elusive accidental poisoning was responsible...