Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well, said Harry Truman, as 132 bloodthirsty newsmen watched eagerly, this was a surprise! Priest had no business saying that, Truman retorted-especially since he is the House Democratic whip. Make it plain to him, the President told the reporter, that the two secretaries would not resign as long as he was President...
Fortunately, their tracks were plain and some of them still quite fresh. When a $3 billion stockpile program was first established in 1946, a forceful bloc of Congressmen from the western metals states strapped it into a "Buy American" straitjacket, requiring that everything be purchased in the U.S. unless it was "inconsistent with the public interest" or "unreasonable" in price. It was silly, Harry Truman noted, to build up a stockpile by bringing the U.S.'s own underground reserves aboveground, and as he signed the act he invited the Munitions Board to buy abroad through the loopholes...
...Japan last week, for the first time since the U.S. occupation, Japanese openly talked rearmament. In Western Germany, plain Germans talked rearmament too, but there the topic was no longer new. In Western Germany the question was not if, but when...
...Russian attack does come, most experts think it would be in the form of a double-pronged tank and infantry rush across the North German plain and down the Channel coast; smaller units would be committed to destroy U.S. forces in Bavaria, while Soviet reinforcements from the east would pour steadily in through Czechoslovakia and Poland...
...invasion of South Korea knocked such arguments into a cocked hat. The President reversed himself, announced what most military men-and plain common sense-would tell any American: Formosa in Red hands would be "a direct threat to the security of the Pacific area...