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...return for the right to establish its bases on Spain's strategic soil, the U.S. has so far given Franco $650 million in military assistance and defense support, another $264 million in economic aid that has helped build dams, factories, highways and housing. Critics have objected that the U.S. has thus bolstered Franco's position over the Spanish people. Franco retorts that Spain is the most staunchly anti-Communist of all the U.S.'s allies, has asked U.S. military experts to make a special study of Spain's "increased vulnerability" on the ground that U.S. bases...
...never had to make a speech") gentle Ian is thrust up the Rose-rigged ladder to the very verge of Minister of State for Colonial Affairs-where, abruptly, he rebels, resigns, retires to pig-farming and smashes his marriage. Author Gellhorn is working here in rather tired soil...
Died. Edward Asbury O'Neal, 82, onetime (1931-47) president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, influential voice in the shaping of New Deal farm policies, key figure (with Henry A. Wallace) in the passage of the first Agriculture Adjustment Act and the subsequent Soil Conservation Act; in Florence, Ala. O'Neal watched with satisfaction his federation's membership grow from 276,000 to 1,275,000 during his tenure as president, once said of farm production: "We should figure out our future on the basis of human needs-of goods and service...
Scarcely a single, clear-cut, concerted decision was taken by the leading Allies (Britain, France, Japan and the U.S.) during six months (March through August 1918) of diplomatic maneuverings leading up to joint troop landings on Russian soil. Author Kennan makes plain that the initial urge to intervene was based not on the Bolshevik but the German menace. The treaty of Brest-Litovsk took Russia out of the war and left the Germans free to mount what was to be their last massive offensive on the Western Front. The Allies also feared that the port of Murmansk and tens...
...Kennan's strenuous objectivity, one inescapable conclusion leaps from the pages of his book-taken rapidly and resolutely, the decision to intervene would have snapped Bolshevik power like a twig. More than a score of separate Russian governments were contesting Lenin's right to rule on Russian soil. The Russian people were famine-ridden and war-weary. Lenin himself relied on endless improvisation. If this was one of history's great lost opportunities, the chief culprit was Wood-row Wilson. Democrat Kennan admits: "[Wilson] drew onto himself, ultimately, the blame for the failure of the entire venture...