Word: counterweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week was, "German unity." Considerably more aggressive on this subject, the same issue of New Times denounced the West German State as "colonial in character." In Germany's Russian zone, the Reds drummed up some 10 million people to elect a "People's Congress"-a me-too counterweight to the West German Federal Republic...
...from the skies marked the arrival of the U.S., its principles and policies, as a major force in the temporal and even spiritual policies of the Vatican. Rome, which once looked uncertainly toward the American Church, today looks to the U.S. as: 1) the world's most effective counterweight to the newly emergent power of Russia; 2) the world's greatest reservoir of food and goods to forestall the further demoralization of Europe; 3) the world's greatest embodiment of the form of government which offers the Church its best milieu for survival-democracy...
With the evident approval of the men who govern Britain, Elder Statesman Smuts sees the Empire of the future more closely united on policy, open to association with other European nations (TIME, Dec. 13). Such a Commonwealth might become the British counterweight to Russia and the U.S. in a future world...
...Berlin the personal newsorgan of the Führer screamed that German schoolboys in Yugoslavia were being foully picked upon. All over the Balkans last week little nations quaked at what the Axis might do and the Slavic Balkans were drawn to hope that Russia might provide a counterweight. But assurance of Russian aid to Yugoslavia which would have no easy time getting there was still more hope than holler...