Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief of its secretariat: U.S.'s Ralph Bunche) might as well fold up. The U.S. would not, and could not, undertake the responsibility for bringing Soviet troops into the Middle East. It could take action against the Arabs to enforce partition at the risk of losing not only vital Middle East oilfields, but also the friendship of a large part of the Moslem world. On these points, U.S. security was at stake. Secretary of State George Marshall tried to take full responsibility for the final decision. In Los Angeles he said: "I recommended it to the President...
Burbank, Calif.'s semiweekly News, which has a four-man news staff, suspected that it was missing some of the town's vital events. Last week, in a front-page notice, it begged: "If you are born, marry, have a baby, die, or some other accident happens, please let us know-not that we give a darn, but most of our readers have a lot of curiosity...
...M.P.s signed a resolution got up by Australian-born Labor M.P. Ronald W. G. Mackay (rhymes with black eye) calling for complete merger of Western Europe and Britain in one federation. The seventy-one signers were members of all non-Communist parties; violent political enemies stood together on this vital issue. The resolution may become a historic milestone. It reads...
...Lyubyanka is no longer a really tough prison. Anyone taken there instead of, say, Lefortovo on the outskirts of Moscow considers himself lucky. Citizens of a police state quickly acquire such vital information, as citizens of free countries know about good or bad hotels...
...find the country's Jews scattered and unorganized, and falling away from their ancient faith. For half a century he traveled up & down the land preaching and organizing a new, liberalized Judaism; it laid less stress on traditional forms and observances than on cutting the vital principles of the Old Testament to the democratic measure of the New World. "American Judaism" which he founded is today called "Reform," and numbers 350 U.S. congregations...