Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mystery. Donald's captors may also have been misled by the fact that after 43 years in China he still does not read or speak the language. He has helped to change China, but China has not changed him. Like all men of mystery, big, bluff, teetotaling, incorruptible Donald has kept his confidences to himself. Not much is known about him for certain. But he has had a way of popping up in the midst of most of China's crises since the Nationalist Revolution of 1911, soothing the opposing contenders for authority, untying the snarls of Chinese...
...chief of its delegation (which included seven women) was 44-year-old trade-union chief Vasili Kuznetsov, a rugged, hard-driving steel worker who learned to speak fluent English while working for Henry Ford in Detroit. Britain's 15 delegates were headed by veteran T.U.C. Secretary Sir Walter Citrine,* who spoke for British labor. The U.S. delegation, led by P.A.C. Chairman Sidney Hillman and U.A.W. President Rolland Jay Thomas, spoke only for the C.I.O. The A.F. of L. had haughtily refused to sit down with the Communist Russians...
...Communist Party's terrorist organization, OPLA, at 10,000. Many of them were civilians. ¶ The three EAM trade-union leaders, who claimed to represent Greek labor, were all formerly associated with Moscow's Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern). They had no more authority to speak for labor than labor leaders loyal to the Greek Government. ¶ The British common soldiers were resentful at the reporting of Greek news. They also despised ELAS, whom the Tommies, many of them members of the British Postal Workers Union, considered "the lousiest, dirtiest, scruffiest lot of fighters our men ever...
...with an oldline union man such as the head of the coal miners' union?* He knights him. . . . These boys'll have to be conservative all along the line now; if they write it'll have to be in the dignified columns of the Times; if they speak it'll have to be in well-modulated tones over the dinner hour of the "wireless...
...face of things, U.S. intervention had been a serio-comic failure. But it was not a fiasco. The U.S. principle was on record, in a specific case: that provisional governments have only provisional power until their people have a chance to speak...