Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First he took on Czechoslovakia for charging three U.S. embassy staff members with espionage, and jailing one of them. These incidents and charges, said Acheson sternly, were "obviously trumped up in order to intimidate further the local population . . . This government has sufficient knowledge of the police methods and practices employed by the present regime in Czechoslovakia to know how much credence should be placed in 'confessions' and 'irrefutable proof produced in cases of this kind...
...tall order; but anything less might well turn the Marshall Plan's success into fatal failure...
...clear that dollar imports would be cut almost down to the indispensable bone of raw materials for British factories. Cripps also called for a stoppage of loans and credits to other countries, and a check on the "unrequited exports" which Britain has been shipping to the Dominions in order to pay off sterling balances (war debts...
...Burma could solve the problem of the rebellious Karens, the chances are that it would then be able to set the rest of its chaotic house in order. The Karens, who number about 2,000,000, are a predominantly Christian (Baptist), politically rightist minority who have been steadfastly insisting that they have a semi-autonomous state within the Union of Burma. The Karens' exorbitant territorial demands include most of lower Burma...
...order to accommodate the expected increase in requests for aid from student job-hunters this year, the Placement Office has expanded its Weld Hall plant. Alexander Clark, formerly a personnel director at Rockefeller Center, Inc., has joined Teele's staff as all assistant director...