Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...discharge that duty, the U.S. needs allies-as clean as possible. But it needs allies-clean or dirty, just as Britain and the U.S. needed reactionary and tyrannical Russia against Hitler. U.S. opinion tends to whitewash some allies (as it whitewashed Russia in 1941-45) and to scold ineffectually at others (e.g., China). Either by wishful whitewashing or reckless scolding, the U.S. can weaken the anti-Soviet front and encourage Soviet aggression...