Word: speech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buzzing tenseness following Washington's atom-bomb announcement, Vishinsky's speech lacked even the bang of an old-fashioned blockbuster. It was sparked with the standard vituperation. The peace-loving U.S.S.R., cried Vishinsky, was "ready to answer . . . blow for blow" any threats of "the black array of warmongers" in the West. He called on the Assembly to 1) condemn Anglo-American warmongers, 2) impose an "unconditional prohibition of atomic weapons and . . . rigid international control," and 3) call upon the Big Five to sign "a pact for the strengthening of peace...
While most delegates would agree with Trygve Lie that the U.N. was more than ever "indispensable," none seemed to know what would make it less ineffectual. Delegates could face their problems only in the somber spirit of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson's opening speech to the Assembly: "To the extent that we cannot solve them today, we must endure them...
...high commissioners: the U.S.'s cagey, hard-driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help to Germany, expressed the hope that Germany would soon get greater autonomy...
...packed, floodlit Bundestag hall, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer delivered a keynote speech listing Germany's major concerns: the P.W.s held by Russia, the Oder-Neisse boundary deal which ceded a large part of Eastern Germany to Poland, the dismantling of German plants. He also touched on the sore spot of denazification. "The truly guilty," he said, "must be severely punished, but beyond that we can no longer have two classes of people in Germany-the politically reliable and the politically unreliable...
This whole problem boils down simply to the traditional policy of a lack of emphasis on speech. If a member of the faculty could be assigned as the Debate Council's coach and given time to supervise all its debates, as is done in the other Ivy League schools, most of the debaters' problems would be solved. But until the university regards speech and debating that important, Harvard's team will stay near the Ivy League cellar...