Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Mapai is committed to negotiations rather than military action as the way to peace, the election results might put new life in the Jewish-Egyptian peace talks going on under U.N. auspices at Rhodes. Both sides were making minor concessions but holding fast to major positions. The atmosphere was that of "a comfortable chess game," but a Briton from the Foreign Office said that if his government should join the U.S. in putting on pressure for peace, a formula would pop up at Rhodes in short order...
Planning for Tomorrow. All over Parliament Hill, in the hotel lobbies and other downtown meeting places, the game of federal politics was under way. The Liberals could hold office legally until 1950. Nobody expected them to stay the limit. All parties were acting as though a general election might come tomorrow...
Fighting All the Way. George Drew's plans had been worked out in secret presession caucuses with Conservative M.P.s. By week's end, he had made plain the strategy decided. His party was going to fight all the way; it planned to criticize every government measure as it had never done under former leader John Bracken. Drew lost no time in starting. On the first day, when Prime Minister St. Laurent introduced a motion, Drew found a technical flaw in it, forced St. Laurent to withdraw...
...government printing offices, the King's Printer had begun turning out an order for 400,000 copies of General Election Instructions, a guide for election officials. If events in the House of Commons kept going the way George Drew had started them, the books might be needed sooner than most expected...
...Question. Many a music lover-especially if he was a ticketholder-could not decide which angered him more: Pianist Gieseking's political record, or the way the U.S. Government had handled him. If Gieseking had been a Nazi sympathizer-and the evidence seemed to show that he once was-why had he been given a visa in the first place? In the second place, why had the Justice Department given him the bum's rush after the State Department had cleared him? The Washington Post asked an even bigger question: "How long are Americans going to deny...