Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearing the Decks. Before the week was out, as a more energetic approach began to take hold, there were other diplomatic moves. In the U.N., the U.S. took a humiliating step to reverse an inept, unworkable policy in Palestine (see above). In Turin, Foreign Minister Georges Bi-dault, as spokesman for the West, proposed the return of Trieste to Italy. That was a sound effort to prevent a Communist victory in the Italian elections next month, to draw a non-Communist Italy into the orbit of Western Union. Still further bids to the Italian voters were in the works...
...under the proposed U.N. trusteeship arrangement, the British might be willing to stay on in Palestine. But the British would have none of it. London announced that it still intended to surrender its Palestine mandate on May 15, withdraw its last troops by Aug. i. Snapped a Colonial Office spokesman: "Nothing could be clearer...
...Cambridge, a Jubilee spokesman commented curtly, "Harvard has been unaffected...
NROTC headquarters said it had been swamped with telephone calls since the speech. Most inquiries, a spokesman said, concerned whether late applicants would be accepted late in the NROTC and Marine Corps programs...
Said an Athens spokesman: the plan "was intended to destroy Greece by destroying Greece's future-her youth." The Greek government hurried off a sharp note to the U.N. Balkan committee in Salonika, charging the Reds with "genocide," and asked for immediate action. Two committees were appointed and the issue labeled "top priority...