Word: parley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians promoted the Union on the eve of the Big Three parley? London's Daily Herald offered a clue. The Big Three, it reported, will discuss a common administrative policy for all Germany and an overall German government under Allied control. In any such discussion, Generalissimo Stalin would be way ahead of the game. His part of Germany was the only one with ready-made political parties and a program on which the new Reich might be built...
...similar feeling was broadcast by Berlin Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht. Said he: the "united front" program for a democratic, anti-fascist Germany should be adopted "from the Oder to the Ruhr, from Mecklenburg to Wiirttemberg." This was far beyond the Russian zone. It was also something for the Potsdam parley (see INTERNATIONAL) to ponder upon...
...hope to see you one of these days soon. I will certainly do so as soon as I get back from the opening day of the San Francisco parley...
...soldier, and I am proud to have lived and fought during an era which produced so great and sincere a leader of this country. The ideals for which he stood and fought will live always if we are intelligent enough to preserve them. At the coming San Francisco parley, may the leaders of the conference remember these ideals. To insure this, I humbly suggest they put another chair at the table-to remain there for Roosevelt. Let it be a material reminder to them and the world of the things for which this great man stood...
...artillerymen, getting set to raze the monument, learned that it contained a handful of Allied prisoners. Two U.S. officers went up to parley with the German colonel. They had dinner with him, smoked his cigars. At 2 a.m. a white flag went up over the "Battle of the Nations" monument...