Word: tacitly
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Colombia's Lleras introduced the week's hottest resolution. Backed in principle by the U.S., it would bind all the signers to defend the boundaries and political independence of any American republic attacked from any quarter, within or without the Western Hemisphere. Tacit object: to create a combination in case Argentina should turn aggressor against Chile...
...Three assertions alone cannot make trusteeship work. That will also require the conscious, wholehearted, fully informed support of the U.S. people. And it will require tacit acceptance by the hundreds of millions of people for whom the Big Three propose to be trustees...
...Gates's proposal has the tacit backing of the Navy because it goes to the heart of future peace in the Pacific. As long as the U.S. undertakes to guarantee the independence of the Philippines and as far as the U.S. becomes responsible for preventing future Japanese aggression, the use of these islands as U.S. bases is a necessity...
...President Grau knew that he had public opinion behind him, and the tacit support of the U.S. Last week, when disturbances continued, Grau went to one source of the trouble. He fired Havana Police Official Donoso, jailed numerous policemen who had been suspected of brutality and killings during the Batista regime. At the same time. Grau warned the troublemakers to settle their differences in court. Eduardo Chibas, Government leader in the Senate, who has a flair for the dramatic, announced: "The President has taken personal command of the maintenance of order in Cuba...
...subcommittee's chief conclusion: that "severe self-imposed rationing . . . if made by tacit agreement between the distillers, is a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the Sherman Antitrust...