Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terraces. .The-question of West Germany's admission had hung over the debates of the Consultative Assembly, had seeped into the delegates' conversations as they sat on Strasbourg's fine restaurant terraces, eating Strasbourg's fine pâté. Churchill did not force the issue to a vote; he did suggest that the Council's Committee of Ministers convoke a special session in December or January, to receive a German delegation. He also reserved the right to reopen the Germany question at this Council session, if there were signs that it was going...
Next day, Tito's government hurled back charges of "lies and slanders," "distortions of the truth," and "unworthy insinuations," branded Russia as an enemy and "double-crosser." East and West, the question was: If Joseph Stalin" is no longer willing to "rest content" with the existence of Tito's regime, just what does he intend...
...makes little difference where one studies the record, whether of surrealism, dadaism, abstractionism, cubism, expressionism or futurism. The evidence of evil design is everywhere...The question is...who has brought down this curse upon us; who has let into our homeland this horde of germ-carrying art vermin...
Michigan's Representative George Dondero thought he knew the answer to his own question, supplied it from the floor of the House last week. Modern art, he thinks, is not a matter of evolution (as Philosopher Ortega y Gasset contends-TIME, Aug. 22), but of revolution; in short, a Red plot "to destroy the enemy, and we are the enemy. So-called modern...art in our own beloved country contains all the isms of depravity, decadence and destruction...
Under Africa's threatening skies, Pope sees the Christian missions as facing many critical decisions. Foremost is the question of the schools. "The situation in Southern Rhodesia illustrates it. There the government pays most of the bill of those Protestant and Catholic mission schools which meet government standards, instead of providing universal free education. Under this system, about a third of the children are in school. If the missions turn education.over to the government, it would have to be provided for everyone, and it would cost three times as much. But the missionaries are worried about doing this because...