Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting was expected to last two days. Actually, it was over in six hours. "It was found," wrote one Washington newsman, reporting a phenomenon rare in international councils today, "that areas of disagreement on practical steps to be taken were considerably fewer than had been expected." The happy meeting consisted of the Atlantic Treaty nations' defense ministers or their representatives, collectively known as the Defense Committee. They had come to Washington to set up and set in motion the defense apparatus outlined by their colleagues, the foreign ministers, last month (TIME, Sept...
America had a lot of other things to learn about Asia's key man. Nehru has been a somewhat nebulous figure, graceful and great, "a jewel among men" as his master Mahatma Gandhi said, but vaguely seen and known. Now, after two years as Prime Minister of free India, he is emerging in sharp and colorful detail. The cultured patriot with the Cambridge accent, luminous eyes and magnetic smile who spent 13 of his 60 years in British jails has become the Orient's unoriental, supercharged public executive...
Said a Delhi wag: "Two powerful personalities who know very little about each other are now colliding. The impact, on America and on Nehru, should be terrific...
...shall take care not to align ourselves with one group or another ... remaining neutral on those [questions] not affecting us directly . . . India obviously cannot join either of the two blocs . . . What she desires is an understanding between Russia...
...voice resumed its complaint. "Fleas," it said loftily, "have not been known in Le Locle for many years. When the war ended, arrangements were made for French train crews to use the Swiss bunkhouse. Promptly the trouble began. First there were two fleas, then there were four, then they came by the hundreds...