Word: union
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works. His thesis: 1) Yalta was "a wise and courageous attempt by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to set the world on the road to lasting peace"; 2) "Difficulties have developed, not from the agreements reached at Yalta, but from the failure of the Soviet Union to honor those agreements." His book is a flat, deadpan report on the eight-day trading session that embittered many a champion of "open covenants openly arrived at." It is the most complete report yet made and should be historically important, but many a reader will refuse to let Russian skulduggery take...
...into the war against Japan at any cost. In his zeal to give F.D.R. a clean bill of health, Big Ed forgets that on Oct. 30, 1943, Stalin had promised Cordell Hull, with no strings attached, "clearly and unequivocally that, when the Allies succeeded in defeating Germany, the Soviet Union would then join in defeating Japan...
Stettinius denies that F.D.R.'s health weakened his bargaining voice: the President believed that the U.S. could wean the Soviet Union "away from dictatorship and tyranny in the direction of a free, tolerant, and peaceful society." At best it was a naive hope for a man come to trade with a proved champion of Lenin's precept: "Use any ruse, cunning, unlawful method, evasion, concealment of truth...
...aspirants for Cambridge political office who are being supported by the Harvard Liberal Union have rejected a formal HLU endorsement but welcome active campaign backing, Leland J. Schoen '52, HLU publicity director, announced last night...
Roland E. Shaine '41, School Committee candidate, and Lawrence F. Feloney, running for City Council, informed the Liberal Union Friday that they appreciated HLU support, but that in Cambridge elections Harvard support might be a political liability...