Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, having reached disagreement on Germany, the Big Four went on to the next topic-an Austrian treaty. On this or further subjects (Korea, Indo-China), there might yet come some change or break in the cold-war temperature. On the issue of Germany, the Berlin meeting was plainly a failure. But the West had established an important point. It had disposed, once and for all, of the hope that some in the West had cherished, from Churchill on down, that Soviet policy had somehow mellowed with the death of Joseph Stalin. A false hope was better dead...
although Sutherland professes to be a Republican, Roger A. Moore 1L, President of the Harvard Young Republican Club, stated yesterday that he was not at all certain that Sutherland holds Republican views on the topic which he is going to discuss...
Duncan H. Cameron '56, president of the Council, refused to speculate on Bunche's topic, farther than to say that it would be on some phase...
...original letters to both McCarthy and Truman, Shanks stated that there is "no more vital issue" than the suggested topic. Truman was invited as a "trusted and beloved champion of civil liberties and bitter opponent of McCarthyism...
...Topic A. The real concern at Sydney was not convertibility. It was worry over a possible U.S. recession-an exaggerated fear, in the eyes of U.S. officialdom. The British Treasury estimates that a drop of only 5% in U.S. national income would mean a 25% drop in sterling sales to the dollar market. This would put the whole Commonwealth in the red. Convinced that he is faced with that threat, Rab Butler made it his immediate concern to brace the Commonwealth for trouble. Explained a British Treasury man: "The dollar market is the father, and when father turns, we turn...