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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Christian Democratic Party has many members in the industrial Ruhr area, where there is a more liberal attitude, it must maintain its strength in conservative Bavaria. This agricultural state has no need or wish for possible government interference in its economy and has threatened to withdraw from any strong state that may be established. In Bavaria the Christian Democrats are joined in a weak coalition with far-right Christian Socialists; any concession at Bonn by the C.D.'s would destroy the uneasy union, and lose for them this second most populous of the eleven West German States...
...reasons that have turned up in support of these pro-Franco suggestions have been wonderfully varied. Farley and Johnston think that Spain would eventually make a fine market for U.S. goods; they maintain that "Spain has always paid its debts." Marshall wanted to keep Spain from going Communist, a noble motive. But the most frequent argument, and the one which Franco himself is now pushing, is that Spain could be a valuable military "bulwark" in case of war with Russia. It is no better an argument than the others...
Strategy and hard necessity had dictated the shift. The greater threat to the postwar world lay across the Atlantic, a fact recognized by the North Atlantic pact. Under a peacetime budget, the U.S. could no longer maintain overwhelming defenses in both oceans at once...
...also impossible to strengthen the UN so long as the present attitude of mutual distrust prevails. The Pact allows for the growth of the UN, saying that any military action taken under the treaty "shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security...
...guaranteed cure-all, the average student improves noticeably, records show. A student who reads at the rate of 200 words a minute at the beginning of the course can often read 400 to 420 words a minute at the end of the month's grind, and still maintain his previous rate of comprehension...