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...course, the Seventh Fleet would be pulled out as soon as the Korean war was over. In English or in Mandarin this seemed to mean: stay out of Korea, fellows, and when the ruckus there is all over, Formosa will be left out in the open, where you can grab...
...Vice Premier George Papandreou and Economic Coordination Minister Emmanuel Tsouderos were in Washington for economic negotiations. The new U.S. ambassador, John E. Peurifoy, had not yet arrived in Athens. To Sophocles Venizelos, one of Greece's more ambitious politicos, it looked like the perfect moment to make a grab for power...
...fire on the statement framed by the four G.O.P. members of the Foreign Relations Committee (TIME, Aug. 21) blaming Administration "blunders" for the U.S.'s hasty postwar demobilization, for "failing to recognize the true aims and methods" of Soviet Russia, for giving the Kremlin "a green light to grab whatever it could in China, Korea and Formosa." Snapped Democrat Tom Connally: "A document of complaint and quarrelsomeness." Added Connecticut's Brien McMahon: "These masters of hindsight seek to cut themselves in on the victories of our foreign policy and to divorce themselves from our defeats . . . The record shows...
...Daily Worker going on the boost for Russia in this war is just as mixed up with the enemy as Seoul City Sue who broadcasts to our troops in Korea . . . I'm sure that if most Americans should walk through the crowded wards [of wounded] they would grab baseball bats and hit a few fungoes the next time the Communists assemble in Union Square. If this doesn't make sense to you, the hell with it. It does...
...that was good in U.S. foreign policy (e.g., U.N., the Marshall Plan), the Republicans had joined in genuine bipartisanship, said the statement. In all that was bad, the Republicans had not been consulted. The Administration, they said, had given the Kremlin a "green light to grab whatever it could in China, Korea and Formosa...