Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus ended a shrewd and careful game of balance-of-power politics. For four years, Turkey had perched inviolate between the warring powers. The game ended because first Russia and then the U.S. and Britain wanted it to end; because Turkey realized that the time had come to pay for postwar security. After the stimulus of the Big Three Conferences, the end of Turkey's game was a sobering anticlimax, a dour lesson in the realities which Europe still faces despite the promise of Teheran...
...shrewd, patient little Mr. Benes, President of the Czechoslovak Government in Exile, Moscow was an end to months of anxious waiting, a fulfillment of great hopes, a beginning for postwar Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe. The day after his arrival, he stood in the Kremlin beside his friend and patron, Joseph Stalin. Together they watched while Molotov and Czechoslovak Ambassador Zdenek Fierlinger signed a treaty of friendship, mutual assistance and postwar collaboration-a pact that may serve as Russia's basic plan for other Central and Eastern European nations...
Vichy Parry. When Marshal Pétain attempted recently to promulgate his own eleventh-hour "democracy" (TIME, Nov. 29), he proved himself still to be a man to watch. His move was shrewd. Its purpose : to attract the many Frenchmen who still revere his name, the many who fear the wrath of Gaullist and guerrilla alike when liberation comes, the many who have something to lose in a postliberation purge...
...controls which banned the shipment of U.S. fats & oils to Mediterranean importers. They were angry because fats & oil needs in the Middle East are being supplied by British exporters exclusively. Joint Anglo-American economic strategy and shipping shortages dictated this allocation, but the exporters still feared a sellout to shrewd British traders...
...regulated solely by the States was the Insurance Executive Association's president and chief spokesman, Edward L. Williams. Lawyer Williams, whose 25 years of Manhattan practice have not dented his Carolina drawl, was all set to sound off about ''smear campaigns" and "lies."* But shrewd Joe O'Mahoney snapped him off when he had no more than shouted "They is none" in answer to a query about the slush fund. The Senator was more interested in other facts. Some of the facts he was after...