Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning from the Foreign Ministers Conference in London 17 months ago, tired old George Marshall had told the nation: "It does not appear possible that paper agreements can assure a lasting peace. Agreements between sovereign states are generally the reflection and not the cause of genuine settlements...
Setting off to attend the new Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris (see INTERNATIONAL), Secretary of State Dean Acheson made it clear that he, too, was indifferent to offers of paper agreement, but was willing to listen attentively if the Russians offered a genuine settlement. Said Acheson: "We shall neglect no opportunity for increasing the area of solution and tranquility in the world. At the same time, we shall not barter away successes achieved for the sake of promises which might again prove to be illusory, as they too often have in the past...
...Peter Maurin formed a spiritual partnership with free-lance writer Dorothy Day that has since become an international movement. Its intellectual nucleus is the monthly paper, the Catholic Worker. Strongly anti-capitalist and pacifist, the Catholic Worker sometimes makes the Communist Daily Worker Jook by comparison almost like a journal of reaction. Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day also opened a chain of "Houses of Hospitality," currently operating in ten U.S. cities, where anyone who applies is given free shelter and such food and clothing as there is for as long as anyone wants to stay. In addition, the movement...
...history of the Young Progressives of America chapter at Syracuse University, New York, has been stormy. The Syracuse Daily Orange, the undergraduate paper has called Y.P.A. "a political thorn in the administration's side." Y.P.A. has also had conflicts with officials of the university town...
...days later, the Michigan Daily, the college paper, commented severely on the whole affair. An editorial stated: "Very evidently, some of the large Michigan corporations are working to destroy the service this university has offered...