Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Danny Bell nor Henry Morgenthau answered. But, over the years, the question seemed to bother Morgenthau a good deal. Last week, in Collier's, he began giving at least a partial answer...
...power politics, squarely behind the aim of peace and against Russia's tactics of disruption and delay. Had Russian vetoes kept the Security Council from protecting Greece from Communists to the north? Then, said Marshall, let the Assembly pass its own judgment on the Greek question. The U.S., he left no doubt, would be ready to act on Assembly decisions...
With these things in mind, Morgenthau asked the President whom he was considering as Douglas' successor. "He took my breath away by saying, 'What do you think of Tom Corcoran? . . .' This seemed to me absolutely out of the question. Tom Corcoran was a first-class lawyer, a first-class political operator, a first-class accordion player...
...State George Marshall and the spokesman of the Russian delegation, Soviet Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Andrei Yanuarevich Vishinsky. The ultimate issue was peace v. eventual war. The immediate struggle was for control of the soapbox-for that, the Russians had demonstrated, was how they thought of U.N. The question was: How could the peace-loving nations prevent the Russians from using this potential focus of power and international moral rostrum to keep the nations divided and make peace a diminishing allusion...
Until the question of priority is settled, Element 61 will have no official name. Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium. Mr. Glendenin wants to call it prometheum after the Greek god Prometheus, giver of fire. One convention wag suggested grovesium, after loud-mouthed Major General Leslie R. Groves, military chief of the atom bomb project. Chemical symbol...