Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bertrand Russell is here. With a tacit nod of satisfaction from the Corporation and perhaps a few grimaces from Boston's Thomas Dorgan to greet him, he arrived yesterday. The presence of this eccentric but learned Britisher marks a timely victory for the freedoms which are so much endangered today...
Distances have narrowed since 1895, when U. S. Secretary of State Richard Olney declared that 3,000 miles of ocean "make any permanent political union between a European and an American State unnatural and inexpedient." A tacit London-Washington Axis is already a fact. Many British subjects, and not so many U. S. citizens, hope the Axis may eventually become a Union. Clarence K. ("Union Now") Streit, who once advocated union of all the democracies, now advocates union of the U. S. and the British Empire, about all that are left...
...richest province and the Vatican has become increasingly dependent on it for financial support. Now that South America, with its 61,000,000 Catholics, is working in antitotalitarian harness with the U. S., the Vatican may soon be put on the horns of a dilemma. One horn is tacit participation in the spoils of Fascist victory-which patriotic Italian bishops (who, like Cardinal Kinsley, do not necessarily represent the Vatican's views) have steadily urged since June. They want the Vatican to take suzerainty over the Holy Land, should Italy seize it. The other horn would be to oppose...
...warning only was the Nanking decree. Neither Britain nor the U. S. speaks to Wang Ching-wei: they could not obey his order without granting tacit recognition to his Government. As long as the seven newsmen stay inside Shanghai's International Settlement, they are safe from arrest. The six who are U. S. citizens cannot be deported anyhow without a trial before the U. S. District Court for China...
...lost. Baudouin persuaded him to call in Pétain, who was mortally afraid of Communism if the war dragged on with France losing. Baudouin switched his allegiance from Reynaud to Petain, whose closest adviser was Pierre Laval. These men made peace and took over France with the tacit consent of Hitler-moved by what ultimate motives only history can judge...