Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps, as some Allied observers hoped, the senescent figure of Baron Suzuki was a front for a negotiated peace. "The Jap Cabinet shake-up," cracked one, "is really a plea for mercy...
...plea for mercy came from Premier Suzuki. Shaking his vanishing mane, the ancient mariner broadcast to his countrymen: "Developments do not warrant optimism ... in the present momentous crisis. . . . But I am ready to die in leading the nation in carrying on the war and crushing the enemy...
...world manifestly run by the Big Powers, the loss of this tattered privilege might have been just another dose of "reality" if it had been judiciously administered. Cried Arkansas' James W. Fulbright, who had just made an eloquent plea for world cooperation in the U.S. Senate: "Why in the world couldn't they have announced it at the same time as they announced the other results of Yalta? I don't like this kind of secret dealing...
...Harry Bridges, estranged wife of San Francisco's lanky longshoremen's boss (whose deportation as an alien Communist is awaiting U.S. Supreme Court review), demanded $450 a month temporary alimony, pending settlement of their divorce suit. Her plea to the court: she needed that much to support herself "in a style and manner fitting a wife of a prominent union official...
Through an unnamed correspondent of their official news agency in Chungking, the Chinese Communists gave their answer to the Generalissimo's plea for unity and promise of constitutional government (TIME, March 12). They declared: the all-party national assembly, which Chiang proposed, would be a "congress of slaves" unless chosen by free elections. (Chiang wished to postpone elections until peacetime.) Chiang's profession of faith in democracy was "gangster talk." His suggestion that the Communist army (whose control is the pivotal issue between Chungking and Yenan) be turned over to a U.S. general under Chiang's supreme...