Word: global
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sabotage by Stealth. "Now . . . suppose a few men in one of these countries decide the other nation must be 'removed,' that it must be wiped out by a war without warfare. Supposing they plan a war without the formalities of overt acts, a kind of global sabotage aimed not at capture but at destruction, a truly 'preventive war.' In this creeping war there would be no blitzkrieg, no declaration, no massing of forces...
...year and a half ago, Philippine Delegate Carlos P. Romulo, who used to be a newspaperman himself, asked U.N. to call a global meeting on press freedom. Last week, at Geneva, Romulo signed his name, as chairman, to a report telling what the world's first Conference on Freedom of Information (TIME, April 12) had done...
Risks & Limitations. The decision to re-establish "military posture" was a decision that involved risks and limitations. The chief limitation was that the U.S. as yet had no global foreign policy. There were hosts of issues as yet unresolved. What was to be the future U.S. policy towards Korea and Japan? Was the U.S. to abandon Korea and cling grimly to Japan? Even more important, what would the U.S. do about the front in China...
When Wedemeyer was done, no doubt remained among Foreign Affairs committeemen that their omnibus bill would contain I) a broad and bristling statement of U.S. global intentions, and 2) a commitment of $570 million to China, with at least $100 million earmarked for arms...
...Chinese problem is part of a global situation which should be considered in its entirety in the orientation of American policy. ... It would be utterly fallacious to underrate either China's needs or her importance...