Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protect witnesses, Klots recommended that congressional groups make clear statements of their purpose in investigation, that witnesses have the right to counsel, and the right to read a formal statement into the record at the conclusion of their testimony
...Stalin statement was, therefore, far from a grandiose gesture in the direction of solving the cold war. It was a very clever frame-up, and in spite of Secretary Acheson's reasoned reply, it made the United States look like a villain to many people. It was neatly timed to interfere with the Atlantic Alliance negotiations between Western powers. Why combine against the Soviet threat when there may be no threat at all?--this was an immediate reaction to Stalin's vague and friendly words, and it showed how devastating Russian propaganda...
...them. But such meetings cannot take place until the Russians quit stalling and playing politics with the world's desperate desire for an international settlement. All the evidence concerning the recent Stalin affair shows that the Russians are not ready for serious conferences at this time. Stalin's statement was purely for publicity purposes, and it's surprising that so many Americans fall...
Last week the battle was in full swing. A "Committee to Retain Our Rector" was busy ringing the doorbells of Holy Trinity's 400-odd voting members, claimed to have 270 signatures already. Though not necessarily agreeing with the Melish political views, the committee's statement said: "We all do agree . . . that they have a right, as we do, to their personal political beliefs, and the further right to engage in such activities, as citizens or as ministers, as their consciences demand...
...Death Be Not Proud, his father, Journalist John Gunther, has written both a memoir of Johnny and the story of his fight for life. Such a book could easily have become an understandable but embarrassing statement of grief, or a father's equally embarrassing eulogy. This one is neither. Gunther is interested in neither tears nor personal royalties (both his proceeds and the publisher's profits go to cancer research for children). Without fuss, in simple, almost conversational style, he expresses the love and comradeship he felt for his son, gives a step-by-step account of cancer...