Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hope my own people understand that they have only one choice and one chance to make a sensible life for themselves. The Germans know they lost the war and they want to do something decent. It should be the job of political leadership to rouse those good instincts, to give the people a real purpose...
...Military measures are no final solution to the problem. The people have to know what they are fighting for, what shape their country is intended to take. That can only be done if the Bonn government begins to move to Berlin. Then the whole world would understand that Bonn had taken title to all of Germany, that it spoke and acted with a claim to the Germans in the East. The aim would be to get the Soviets to withdraw, with some face-saving gesture...
Americans didn't know much about Korea before our troops went in there. Then we learned fast. Today few of us know much about Formosa, but we are ready to learn. For it is becoming increasingly obvious that to understand the news from the Far East we must have a clearer picture of this little island which is looming so big in the headlines...
...judge from this, the department has a general charter; it ranges over politics, science, business, sociology -wherever we feel this background information is most important to help you understand the news. Most Background for War pieces will probably fall, however, under...
...sections. Thus, in this issue, our cover story on Admiral Radford, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, naturally has a great deal to say about U.S. strategy and Formosa. At other times, Background for War may not be immediate news, but the information it contains, we hope, will help you understand today's news better...