Word: war-torn
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...legal position, looked at from the same point of view, is equally impregnable. As one sovereign government to another, Greece would ask of the United States money with which to bolster up her ramshackle economy, civilian experts to aid her in reconstructing her war-torn country--and military experts and materiel to beef up her army of over 100,000 men. By so doing, the United States would take up where Britain left off--aiding the present Greek government to root out and destroy the EAM forces in the north and to supply the Greek and Turkish governments with...
...speech will be under the auspices of the United Services to China. This organization was under the title of United China Relief during the war, when it was instrumental in sending food, clothes, medical supplies and other relief supplies to the war-stricken millions of Asia. Reorganized recently, it is carrying on with this work as well as a reconstruction program for war-torn areas...
State, in other words, would open the U.S.'s end of the street to any nation which would do likewise. State would demand relaxation of export-import controls, preferential tariffs, bilateral barter and other devices by which the war-torn countries of the world have sought economic security. State would demand the relaxation of state trading monopolies...
...subject of Trieste.) Russia, which had not liked the idea of a 21-nation conference in the first place, had used it as a rostrum from which to warn the world against Anglo-U.S. domination, and to accuse the U.S. of profiting at the expense of war-torn Europe. But if temperamental optimists had been disappointed in Paris to date, Jimmy Byrnes's insistence that the small nations be called in had accomplished something: the record had been kept clear; the right of the smaller belligerents to make themselves heard had been maintained; in fundamentals, the U.S. position...
White Violet. Tito and his paladins have chalked up some notable achievements in the physical reconstruction of Yugoslavia. In many villages, men still wear sackcloth trousers, and women cannot leave their houses for lack of clothes. But things are a lot better in Yugoslavia than in other war-torn countries (UNRRA aid to Yugoslavia has amounted to over 327 million dollars since April 1945). Tito has managed to keep most people ignorant of the fact that UNRRA supplies are free. In Belgrade recently, Yugoslavs in G.I. shirts and British army boots demonstrated in trucks, shouting: "Give us arms. We want...