Word: proposall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small but Practical. The chief proposal before the subcommittee when the talks began was a sweeping Anglo-French plan that called for disarmament in three easy stages:
To U.S. Delegate Harold Stassen and his government the Anglo-French scheme appeared to overlook the fact that it would be far more useful to start even a limited measure of actual disarmament than to get general agreement on a Utopian overall blueprint. Emphasizing this, Stassen a fortnight ago proposed...
The Soviet proposals marked a significant step forward. For the first time the Russians had not insisted that an absolute ban on nuclear weapons precede any other kind of disarmament. For the first time too the U.S.S.R. had given some indications, hazy though they were, of the kind of international...
But Harris defended his proposal in ringing terms: "Magazines by Canadians, for Canadians, telling about Canadians, are an essential thread in the fabric of our national life ... I wonder whether we could contemplate a time when we would not have a Canadian magazine."
His proposal outraged both parents and educators. It also set off a public debate calling attention to a problem that many a Southern and border-state school system will eventually have to face: how to get past the transition period if poorly prepared Negro students are put into classes with...