Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robin J. Cruikshank, a sharp-eyed British journalist, told Americans this winter (TIME, Jan. 20) how Europe's ears would be cocked. He asked: "Will Uncle Sam decide to take the expansionist way in the world?" What the U.S. offered at Geneva would be the tipoff: "The first speech of the American spokesman . . . will have all the force of an act, a decisive...
Russia's tide was no longer rising in expansionist flood. Winds of ambition and intransigence might blow again from Moscow; carelessness or stupidity or complacency might breach again, and wider, the West's dikes. But last week it looked as if the worst had passed, and that Russia was resigned-for a while, at least-to boundaries of power which the rest of the world would consider safe...
...approach to the Seviets "neither submissive nor truculent," and further declared that the armaments race now in progress must be immediately stopped though "a revision of the United Nations giving it real control power." Robert Koblitz expressed faith in the motives of the Kremitu, while Joseph Clearly denounced 'expansionist policies and Raymond Batter adopted a midway position pointing out the shortcomings in the courses being pursued by both governments at the present time...
Tactical Maneuver. Even most skeptics believed that Stalin really wanted peace, for the time being. But few believed that his assurances marked more than a tactical change in Russia's expansionist drive. In their opinion, the statement was designed...
...Ministers will hold the first high-level discussion of policy on Germany since the ill-fated Potsdam conference. By then the democracies may have learned that their cause is by no means lost in Europe, that panic fear of Russia is unjustified; and the Russians may have learned that expansionist maneuvering is not the path to their cherished goal of "security...