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...loan to Spain was designed to smooth the way for U.S. aid to another dictator whom the Administration was more eager than Congress to help: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. With Spain assured of its pot of gold, President Truman asked congressional leaders for money to Tito to offset a famine which might, said the President, topple Tito from power. President Truman did not deny that Tito was a Communist; he simply did not mention it. "Tito's defection from Kremlin control represents the first setback for Soviet imperialism and as such is an important political symbol," explained...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., November 11--Two mistakes by the freshman football team offset a fine passing display by Captain Dick Clasby and gave Brown's freshman team a 21 to 20 victory over the Yardlings in the Brown Stadium today...
...left. The delegates watched it with frank fascination. When he made his familiar, chopping gestures, the shadow appeared to be boxing Vishinsky's ears unmercifully, an illusion which was intensified by the President's words. His plea for a "foolproof" disarmament was obviously meant to offset Russia's phony peace talk...
...further production, Slichter states that if the conflict with Russia caused a four percent production increase and if the additional defense outlays were about $18,000,000,000 a year, the production gain would entirely offset increased military expenditures after six years...
Republican candidates well know that, since the day of Roosevelt, they have to carry downstate Illinois by big margins to offset the Democratic majorities ground out by Jake Arvey's Chicago machine.* With spellbinding oratory, Republican Dirksen banged away at Communism, Acheson, inflation and wasteful foreign programs. "Lenin said, 'Someday we are going to force the U.S. to spend itself into destruction,' " cried Dirksen. "In the name of God, what are we doing? When will we wake...