Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infinite Puzzle. This seemed no paradox to Harry Truman. But the problem went deeper. The world, obviously, would not accept a U.S. trusteeship. The Germans had started the race for the bomb; the Japanese had been experimenting, too. Now the Russians started working furiously. Any other nation with the inclination and the money could get into the race, and some of them doubtless would...
Harry Truman also found time to accept a life membership in the Kansas City Chapter of the National Sojourners, chat with visiting Kiwanians, receive a photograph of himself attending the Washington banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and bandy civilities with such characters as Mississippi's Representative Rankin and Missouri's Senator Briggs, who had little to do with matters of state. Full of the Christmas spirit, Harry Truman still liked to see everybody...
Economics had made strange bedfellows; neither Empire-minded diehards nor planned-economy socialists wanted to accept a loan which would limit Britain's economic independence by tying her to the vagaries of U.S. capitalism. (On the related issue of ratification of the Bretton Woods monetary agreements, the House vote was 314 for to 50 against.) Britons who reluctantly favored the loan said that it is sound only if the U.S. maintains full employment and buys enough goods from other nations to make it safe for them to reduce trade barriers. The thoughtful London Observer...
Solomonic Judgment? Whether the uniformed chiefs agreed or not, their diverse blueprints might yet be overlaid to make the plan of a structure which all would have to accept and support. As Senator Lister Hill (a merger advocate) told the Navy in a Solomonic judgment: "You could take that entire overall setup depicted in your chart and lay it over the Army plan without greatly disturbing either one." The Army would get the merger it has fought for; the Air Forces would get its equality; the Navy would get the overall coordination it has preached. Each would have to give...
...indeed a strange reward for all we in this island did and suffered." Ernest Bevin frankly compared the U.S. to "a money lender." Raged Conservative Robert Boothby: "This is our economic Munich." Laborite Norman Smith chimed in that the U.S. was treating Britain as a defeated enemy forced to accept the victor's terms...