Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrei Gromyko is the darling of the bobby-soxers at Lake Success. They want his autograph; they like to listen to his rich Russian voice, but they seldom try to understand his speeches. Even grownups who listen intently to Gromyko do not always hear the same things. Last week, many thought Gromyko was saying again that the U.S. should promise not to use The Bomb and to scrap those it has before any solid machinery is built to enforce atomic arms control...
...good, grey Warren Austin had heard Gromyko say that Russia now believed in international punishment for atomic offenses. That, to Austin, seemed "to narrow the field of questions at issue." Gromyko was not so optimistic. To newsmen afterwards, Gromyko said: "I do not understand Senator Austin when he says the issues have been narrowed down." Said an observer...
...Irritated with sociologists because they don't go down at look at the slums." Professor Zimmerman said that the great challenge confronting urbanites today is "whether or not people are going to understand these bad conditions and whether or not they are going to move in and correct them...
...only chance of strengthening a world front against totalitarianism is by building a democratic analogue to Stalin's multi-national Bolshevism . . . motivated by a desire to avoid war and prevent the one world of planned enslavement which is the Russian program. ... If the Western statesmen don't understand that the world cannot remain half slave and half free, the Russians do, and they are engaged in the most extensive propaganda effort since the Comintern was founded to make the one world their world. The weakness and injustices of our democracy provide them with excellent material for propaganda...
...should be permitted to play in the treaty-making. Typical of Russia's attitude on the matter was a Gusev disquisition on the "states directly concerned" in the German peace. After all, mused he ("just thinking aloud"), could countries thousands of miles away from the war theaters really understand the war? Britain's Sir William Strang cracked back: what, for instance, about Canada, which had declared war on Germany in 1939-without waiting to be invaded first? Gusev...