Word: texts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fishhooks. Smith's first impulse was to tell Stalin he had a deal. Thirty months in Moscow, however, has taught Smith caution. He told Stalin that he and his colleagues would cable the proposal to their governments. In Washington, experts sat up all night prodding at the Russian text in search of diplomatic booby traps, found none they considered lethal. They cabled Smith a series of suggested clarifications. He and the others tried to work them out with Foreign Minister Molotov. For a week they wrangled over shades of meaning. A Washington official described the process: "Molotov insists...
...when Zionist leaders in Tel Aviv were drafting Israel's Proclamation of Independence, they got into a sharp dispute over whether to mention God in their text. The story, which leaked out last week, revealed much that the world did not know of the struggle between religious Zionists and secular Zionists for dominant influence in the new state. Very clear was the fact that modern Israel bore little relation to the biblical Jewish theocracy...
...appreciate the sincere and successful efforts of TIME to assure the accuracy of its text week after week and feel certain that the phrasing of the incident in the Mexico story was merely reflection of incomplete information available at the time...
...still needed a lesson in the ways and meaning of Russian Communism, it was a week of disjointed but sobering education. Bits & pieces of the text were scattered everywhere...
There was little to do after that. On Sunday, at the closing session, Gailmor in stentorian tones intoned the platform text to the delegates. Several innocuous amendments were offered and voted upon. A faint glimmer of opposition and dissatisfaction, smoldering among some delegates, flickered on the floor...