Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vishinsky continued in Russian, Bidault banged his gavel; when that had no effect he rang the chairman's bell, which is used only to open and close sessions. Finally Vishinsky got the floor and said he had merely been attempting to withdraw a Russian objection. He added: "I am very sorry the President was disturbed, and particularly that he disturbed the august bell at his elbow...
...this was going a bit too far-and they also thought George might never get the job. In almost the same breath, Harry Truman had nominated three other cronies-Jake Vardaman, Stu Symington and Ed Pauley-for top Government jobs, and the public howled. Ed Pauley subsequently had to withdraw after some dissection by a Senate committee; but George, as usual, was equal to the occasion...
Occupation. Allied troops (the Red Army in Finland and the Balkan countries, U.S. and British troops in Italy) will withdraw from the ex-enemy nations within 90 days after the treaties come into force. But Russia put a joker into the Hungary and Rumania treaties; it can keep "such armed forces as it may need for maintenance of lines of communication of the Red Army with the Soviet zone of occupation in Austria." (Meanwhile, the Russians refuse even to consider peace with Austria.) Although the easiest access to Austria for the U.S. and Britain is through the Adriatic, the Western...
...almost the worst book I have ever read. ... When I had finished the story I opened the window and let in the fresh air." Poor Hardy, mild-mannered and at heart probably the least coarse of British novelists, thereupon threw up his hands. He told his U.S. publishers to withdraw the book if they saw fit-"it is so much against my wish to offend the tastes of the American public." Jude was Hardy's last (many now think it his best) novel. Its reception "completely cured" him, he said, of further interest in fiction. He turned back...
When Chiang hiked his price for peace by demanding that the Communists withdraw from areas they had long controlled in North China, even his closest advisers felt he had decided on war. When he turned around and extended the two-week Manchurian truce by eight days, they were not so sure. Lo Lung-Chi, spokesman for the liberal Democratic League and one of China's keenest politicians, offered his analysis: "The Generalissimo is the kind of man who will rein in his horse at the edge of the cliff...