Word: vis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Moscow's Literary Gazette proved once again that Soviet truth is relative, flexible and pragmatic. Said the Literary Gazette: "It is well known that [during the war] the coward Tito and his entourage were spending their time on the island of Vis, attending drinking parties with Randolph Churchill in the port of Bari, while [Soviet] Marshal Tolbukhin's armies, after annihilating Hitler's divisions, were occupying Belgrade . . . Such are the facts of history...
...State, with our principal allies, and with the Republican representatives of a policy which must continue to be bi-partisan. If it had been so cleared, there is much to be said for the proposed action. It indicates, I think, that the President, while maintaining a firm position vis-a-vis Russia, will continue to seek an eventual agreement...
...HOUR CONVERSATION WITH YOUR REPORTER IN WHICH I TRIED TO GIVE AN HONEST ESTIMATE OF WHAT IS FINE AND WHAT IS BAD ABOUT RADIO JOURNALISM, YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO PRINT FOUR SENTENCES. THESE . . . HAVE RATHER CRUELLY MISREPRESENTED MY VIEWS AND HAVE DONE INJURY TO MY POSITION VIS-À-VIS MY PROFESSION AND MY COLLEAGUES IN RADIO FOR MOST OF WHOM I FEEL THE GREATEST RESPECT. ERIC SEVAREID Washington...
...commercialization" of tutoring vis-a-vis the Athenian gentility of Harvard, I agree that it is indeed fortunate for free education in a free society that university teachers are not paid and so may speak the truth as they see it, not caring a whitney what powers they offend. Lester Cramer...
...letter was even more scathing than the speech in its criticism of U.S. policy vis á vis Russia. It charged "a school of military thinking" with advocating a "preventive war" before Russia perfected her own atomic bomb. It denounced the U.S. plan for atomic control as humiliating to the Russians. The letter was a kind of secondary explosion which blew the Secretaries of War and Navy and Bernard Baruch, godfather of the atomic-control plan, clean out of their seats. They arrived at the White House with denials and protests...