Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unfaltering support to the United Nations," welcoming in "the new nations which are being formed in lands now advancing toward self-government under democratic principles...
...give the U.S.-and the world-a major restatement of U.S. foreign policy. Reading with careful emphasis from his brown leather loose-leaf notebook, his breath hanging frosty in the winter air, the President made it clear that there would be no softening of the U.S. attitude toward Communist aggression...
Assembly v. Conference. Last year, France and Belgium had suggested formation of a "consultative assembly" as a first step toward a Western Union parliament. The matter had been referred to a committee of five (Britain, France and the Benelux nations). The French, who took the role of the hare in the race toward union (if race it was), wanted an assembly whose delegates would directly represent their countries' population. They would vote publicly, without regard to the nations' official policies. They could not commit their governments to action; they could, however, stir up public opinion at home...
...knew the answer. Li had almost nothing with which to bargain with the Red armies who at week's end stood within 15 miles of China's capital, Nanking. The government was preparing to move to Canton on the south coast and its armies were pulling southwest toward Kweilin and south toward Chekiang Province...
...rapid a push toward reform on the part of the national government, involving dogmatic policy directives, has resulted in killing democratic methods...