Word: vivendi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principles and faiths-Lippmann sees it in terms of opposing national powers which can achieve a working relationship through diplomacy. At the core of his thinking is a 19th Century term-the "balance of power." Wrote Lippmann last month: "There is no alternative to the negotiation of a modus vivendi based on the balance of power and of reciprocal advantages." In less Lippmannese English, this means a hardheaded deal between the U.S. and Russia...
...Deal. On Berlin, the Ministers reached what the diplomats insisted on calling a modus vivendi, i.e., a way of muddling along in Berlin without real concessions from either side. The agreement instructed the Berlin occupation commanders to consult on how they might "mitigate the effects of the present administrative division of Germany and of Berlin." They would try to "normalize" Berlin's life, "facilitate" the movement of goods and people between Berlin and the Western and Eastern zones. They would also seek expansion of trade between the Western and Eastern zones. The Ministers formally agreed that the New York...
...inevitable results follow from the peculiarities of Bay State vote-getting. With such wide-spread hardening of the political arteries, the parties have been forced to find a modus vivendi. The patronage gets divvied up on a "love thy neighbor" basis, and campaign oratory frequently resembles nothing so much as Tweedledum denouncing Tweedledee...
November 18. Kurusu and Nomura called on Hull, proposed as a temporary modus vivendi that the U.S. lift trade restrictions laid on Japan in July. By this time Secretary Hull was convinced that there was "not one chance in a hundred of reaching a peaceful settlement"; Welles thought the chances were one in a thousand...
November 20-25. Franklin Roosevelt, alarmed by the Jap ultimatum, wavered, seriously considered a modus vivendi to last six months. In a penciled note to Cordell Hull he wrote: "U.S. to resume economic relations-some oil and rice now-more later. ... U.S. to introduce Japanese to Chinese to talk things over. . . . Later on Pacific agreements." To Winston Churchill he cabled that this would be "a fair proposition" for the Japs but that he was not hopeful of its acceptance; "we must all be prepared for real trouble, possibly soon...