Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoped to persuade the United Nations to let him incorporate mandated South-West Africa into his country. Africa's blacks, who regard the South African Government as the harshest of many oppressors, opposed the merger. (One of their spokesmen, Chief Tshekedi Khama of Bechuanaland, was prevented by the British from coming to New York.) Smuts's plan was also opposed by India, whose old case against South African discrimination was boiling again. Russia would use South Africa's record as propaganda among dependent peoples everywhere. Humanitarians who agree with Smuts when he talks of one world were...
This diplomatic ace in the hole, together with Stalin's frank disclosure of the number of Soviet divisions in Eastern Europe and the more personal, friendly working relationship with other statesmen which Russian spokesmen are now creating, offers little encouragement to the protagonists of World War III. Russia, while as yet making no major concessions, is demonstrating an increasing willingness to "talk things over." And when nations are willing to discuss their problems and give ear to one another's grievances, the chances for successful agreement are incalculably multiplied...
...relations with Russia, the U.S. has rejected two extreme views of what Russia really wants. The leading spokesmen of these opposed views were Henry Wallace and William C. Bullitt (ex-Ambassador to Moscow). The Wallace view, in brief, was that, once Russia feels secure against attack, she will stop expanding and start providing the long-promised socialist Utopia for her own people. The Bullitt view was that the Bolshevik leaders are irrevocably committed by the "Communist creed" to world domination, and that nothing will stop them but force, the sooner applied, the better...
Outside Rome's Viminale Palace (seat of the Government) a huge crowd of paper-hatted, overalled workers and homeless war veterans shivered patiently in the first chill of approaching winter. Inside, spokesmen sought to air their grievance: 30,000 laborers had been discharged that morning from public-works projects...
...Washington's left-wing Democratic Congressman de Lacy: "The last of the great Roosevelt spokesmen is gone from the Cabinet...