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Word: statement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crillon Hotel. At the final, plenary meeting, in the Navy Ministry, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson presided in a sky-blue satin chair, before a cheerful blaze of oak logs. It took just four hours (including changes of spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called it the "blackout communique." It was known, however, that the "strategic concepts" had settled a long-standing controversy: they called for defense of the West on the Western European plain-not from behind the Pyrenees or the far side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Fast Work | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Cominform issued its statement on the sixth anniversary of the founding of Tito's regime. In Belgrade that day, Tito and his lieutenants celebrated gaily and the last straw of Soviet-Yugoslav friendship snapped: Joseph Stalin's portraits, which had been publicly displayed throughout Yugoslavia even after the break with Moscow, disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Last Straw? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...statement to the CRIMSON, Father Feeney said, "I would be delighted and would welcome the opportunity to discuss with Mr. Wallach the question of 'extra ecclesiam nulla salus. I also promise Mr. Wallach that ... my road to heaven is very much kinder than that of Pascal and Montaigne (the two sources Wallach mentioned in his letter); its very dogmatic definiteness is its supremest charity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fr. Feeney to Meet Wallach In Discussion | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...Radcliffe yesterday, library directors echoed Metcalf's statement that Annex book stacks are adequate. "We're making a concerted effort this year to order even more course books, but it all takes time and the girls must be patient," one official said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Metcalf Doubts Annex Will Ever Enter Lamont | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

Students too, and their organizations, should have the same rights. This is not merely an espousal of the liberal tradition under which Harvard operates, but a matter of sound administrative policy. As President Lowell pointed out in his classic statement on academic freedom, a University cannot regulate its professors' freedom of action without at the same time making itself responsible for everything that professors do. The parallel with student freedoms is striking. If the Dean's Office limits the freedom of student activities in order to solve the four problems outlined in previous editorials in this series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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