Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...P.C.C.'s Communist and other minority spokesmen gave qualified approval to the Government program. If the conferees could now solve the problem of nationalizing the Communist armies, China would indeed have turned the corner...
...Company spokesmen, after hearing Lawyer Gaston's formula, quickly decided that it was nothing but a union checkoff in lamb's clothing. They emerged snorting: "Completely unacceptable . . . that man was very fresh to us." (Two days later Gaston was removed from the Stamford assignment, another casualty among labor-management alchemists...
Last week in London the trusteeship committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission was discussing a proposal which would permit African natives to elect spokesmen to appear before UNO. Up jumped South Africa's hardbitten, outspoken George Heaton Nicholls. Cried he: "To invite natives to get up on platforms and express their wishes would result in chaos in Africa...
...testimony gave the most intimate account yet told of the fated diplomacy of 1941 : August 9-11. At the Atlantic Conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were confronted with the fact that Japanese troops had moved into French Indo-China, were massing on the Thailand border, that bellicose Japanese spokesmen were complaining of "encirclement" by the U.S., Britain and China. Churchill urged a joint warning to the Japs, wanted Roosevelt to declare that further Jap aggression would force the U.S. to take counter-measures "even though these might lead to war." The President agreed to the joint warning, boggled...
Britain, as depicted by its collaborating Opposition and Government spokesmen last week, still put much of its trust in the United Nations Organization, still spoke of the Big Three in the present tense. Britain still wanted to get along with Russia. But Britain also wanted to be prepared not to get along with Russia. U.S.British understanding had long been Britain's second line of diplomatic defense; now, if the U.S. was willing, it would be the first line...