Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amalric outlines a chilling, decade-long scenario of dissolution. Disorder is already evident in "an unusual spread of casual robbery." Having discarded the old Christian morality, the Kremlin is desperately trying to substitute nationalism, with its "inherent cult of force and expansionist ambitions." Already, there have been clashes with China along the Ussuri River in the East...
...making trouble for other Asian nations. Possibly, China would heat up the pressure again on Taiwan. But most signs are that China, with all its domestic troubles, would not be likely to indulge in foreign adventures. For the time being at least, one severe restraint on any expansionist ambitions is Peking's fierce quarrel with Russia over disputed territories in central Asia...
...that respect is mixed. Intellectually, Burns recognizes the Government's obligation to maintain prosperity. As chairman of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers from 1953 to 1956, he agreed to increases in Government spending and in the credit supply that his successor, Saulnier, thought were too expansionist. In early 1960, he advised Nixon, then Vice President, that federal spending should be increased and credit eased to head off a recession that he correctly warned would hit its low point shortly before Election Day. Nixon could not persuade the Eisenhower Administration to adopt the Burns program...
...contrast, Bill Martin over the years has been much more worried about the perils of recession. Martin's real hallmark at the Federal Reserve was a willingness to switch from easy-to tight-money policies and back again as he thought the situation required. He cooperated with the expansionist policies of President Kennedy when the nation's economic problem was sluggish growth and persistent unemployment. In late 1965, however, he refused to accept Lyndon Johnson's line that the U.S. could escalate the Viet Nam war, keep taxes and interest rates down and still avoid inflation...
When Americans talk about defense arrangements in Southeast Asia, they usually mean defense against China. But is China going on a predatory expansionist policy? That is not their method. Their technique is through people's liberation wars. Vietnamese, not Chinese, have to die in Viet Nam. The whole world has got to live with China. It is up to the major powers-America, Russia, Japan and the countries of Western Europe-to come to some accommodation first. Then the countries of Southeast Asia can find accommodation with China within the framework of the United Nations, I hope...