Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some points, Stassen was bound to run into heavy criticism. Builders would insist that his housing program would cut into a materials shortage that is already drum-tight. His Government boycott plan was politically impractical. Those who thought he was too wide-eyed on Russia would still think so. Where I Stand set free-talking Harold Stassen up as a fair target for all comers, but that was the risk he had been accepting all along...
...timing was opportune and opportunistic. Congress was about to begin work on the European recovery program, upon which most congressional leaders seemed to be in basic agreement. Republican Tom Dewey's approval of the program kept him in step with Republican congressional leaders...
...from Albany tried to do more than that. He wanted to widen the perspective of the men in Washington. Any program of aid to Europe alone was not enough, he said. A successful American strategy in foreign policy must also include aid to China. There must be an end to past contradictions in U.S. policy which had "seen our own Government turn against our wartime Chinese allies and order them, under pain of losing American support, to accept into their Government the very Communists who sought to destroy it." Now, said the Governor: "We have only one choice and that...
...Eastern Europe the umbrella took the form of a program to liquidate non-Communist leaders in satellite states (see FOREIGN NEWS). In U.N. it took the form of an intensified defense of the Kremlin's veto. In propaganda it included threats like Molotov's (see below...
...million American aid-to-Greece program is failing. If you sit around Athens, close your eyes to everything but the abundant food in de luxe restaurants, watch new American cars roll down the streets, look into shop windows filled with American canned goods, Italian woolens and Swiss watches, you can pretend it is not failing. But once you get outside Athens, you realize that the situation is the worst it has been since October 1944 when the Germans left. The Greek Government, the high command, the Army and the people are carrying out a sort of mass psychological "sitdown strike...