Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also undecided last week was the matter of Berlin. Joseph Stalin (with no elections to worry about at home) jumped into that deadlock with an accusation. He said that the Western powers had welshed on a deal between Argentina's Juan Bramuglia and Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had a fine chance to tell the world that Stalin was a liar-and prove it. Instead, Jessup, using the palest diplomatese, gibble-gabbled: "If Stalin's reference to an agreed solution which subsequently was repudiated refers to any resolution agreed to by the three Western...
...force (see FOREIGN NEWS). The five Brussels Treaty nations, plus the U.S. and Canada, were getting ready to bring out into the open some plans for a North Atlantic Defense Pact (see CANADA)-under which the U.S. and Canada might start a new flow of military lend-lease to Western Europe. Otherwise, matters were on dead center for a few days...
...brass had been getting off a lot of fine talk about a North Atlantic union for defense against Russia. Few Canadians paid much attention, or got much out of the vague and glittering generalities if they did. But last week, when news dispatches from Paris reported that Western Union countries (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg) were ready to join Canada and the U.S. in a North Atlantic Security Pact, Canadians sat up with a start, asked to be told what was going...
Last July, said Pearson, Canada and the U.S. had set out to discuss North Atlantic security with the five Western Union powers. For four months the talks had continued, ending only when officials felt they had gone as far as they could without further direction from their governments. Just how far discussions had gone on such all-important topics as military aid, neither Ottawa nor Washington was saying...
...second feature is an ordinary Western, but it contains an incredible number of point-blank gun duels in which nobody is even scratched. Gimleteyed William S. Hart would have knocked off the entire rustling population with that much ammunition...