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...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...
...changing world of the atom, everything suddenly changed. Statesmen strove to raise the atomic debate from the depths of frightened nationalism to the heights of a new internationalism. Two British spokesmen, Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin (see FOREIGN NEWS) strove to bend that internationalism to the uses of a strengthened Anglo-American power alignment, and Clement Attlee tried to sell both ideas to Harry Truman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
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...
...short cuts to a better world." Two nights and 39 speeches later, the 14th annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems had done its duty by its solemn theme, "Responsibility of Victory." Four Cabinet members, statesmen of a half-dozen nations, scientists, generals and spokesmen for plain people-ranging from a German P.O.W. to Cartoonist Bill Mauldin-had had their...
This week President Betancourt said that of course he weald not be so foolish as to interfere with the country's oil economy. Oil-company spokesmen in Caracas seemed to be happy...