Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he gave out to the world last week in the obvious hope that they would be accepted as an offer of peace. His real purpose quickly became clear. The good words had been timed to present Soviet Russia as a seeker of peace at the moment when the Western nations were concluding an alliance against Soviet aggression. Russia thus hoped to make the defensive North Atlantic pact look like an offensive act, and perhaps an unnecessary one. But while giving soft answers to a U.S. correspondent's questions, Russia at the same time was making big bear noises...
...Dean Acheson, who was preparing to make public the substance of the North Atlantic Defense Pact as tentatively drafted by the seven powers.* It provides that an attack on any of the signatories is an attack on all. In return for this protection, Norway would be asked by the Western powers to discuss joint defense with the powers and submit to them her armament needs...
...Father's House. Joseph Mindszenty comes from fighters' country-the low, rolling Dunantul, on the western bank of the Danube, the rampart where for 150 years Hungarians fought the Turkish invaders from the East. He was born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty...
...Western Canada gave a significant sign last week of its growing independence in the oil business. The Dominion's second largest producer, British American Oil Co., Ltd., announced that it was reducing its imports of U.S. crude by 2,500 barrels a day, would cut them twice as much by month...
Long irked because U.S. oilmen pooh-poohed their efforts, Albertans could bask at last in recognition from Tulsa's Oil and Gas Journal: "Probably the most noteworthy development in the Western Hemisphere is the rapid rise in 1948 [oil] output in Canada...