Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years passed, and the A.F.L.'s Green, the C.I.O.'s Murray and the miners' Lewis became the Big Three of U.S. labor, John L. Lewis never hesitated a second when he had a chance to chuck a cast-iron insult at his former brothers-in-labor. Samples: "I have explored the head of William Green and, believe me, there is nothing there"; "a pusillanimous little man who sees ghosts at night"; "the A.F.L. has no head-its neck just grew up and haired over." Furthermore, rumbled old John L., Philip Murray was "innocuous, feeble and namby-pamby...
...Tito will show Russia that we do not like her expansionist tendencies (this, by some idiot logic, is said to lower the tension of the cold war). It will also, if the Iron, Curtain countries cooperate, stimulate trade between East and West which will help Europe get on its economic feet and help break down the barrier now existent between the two regions...
These arguments come down to this: there is a breach in the Iron Curtain; it would be weak, criminal, to pass up such an opportunity of strengthening ourselves at Russia's expense. We must do this right away because otherwise Tito will succumb to Stalin's blockade, have to fall back into line. We are taking risks--that war may somehow come out of this, or that we may lose face or money--but all policies, especially strong ones, involve some dangers. At any rate the status quo is unsatisfactory and if we do run a little risk in trying...
...same type of blinkered reasoning in the orthodox pragmatic argument for aid to Tito, as outlined above, admitting from the beginning that the move is political. Adherents to this view think in terms of immediate political prospects in Yugoslavia, and by extension bring into the picture both nearby Iron Curtain countries and Western European communists. Essentially they are trying to reduce the complex issue to a simple, individual case that can be solved upon consideration of a few elementary facts. Just as the people who believe he aid is non-political fail to see the political factor in the situation...
...Tito will not raise America in the eyes of the non-partisan world. The people of the great battleground of southeast Asia will not be happy to hear that the United States has given $20,000,000 to Tito in order to keep open a gap in the Iron Curtain--to play politics, that is--when the U. S. Congress can scarcely bring itself to consider appropriating $35,000,000 for much-needed services to poor nations, under the Point Four program. We have presented the Russian propagandists with a ready-made, gold-plated argument for use not only...