Word: access
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Estimates of the amounts expended on these airfields run as high as $500,000,000. As far as I could learn, we had no postwar rights of access to any of them. We do not seek dominance; we abhor imperialistic domination over native peoples; what we want is an even break. But in the islands of the Pacific and in other places there are many points which are essential to the military security of our country in this...
...Russia. "Certainly no one is more deeply interested than American parents in the success of Russian arms over Germany. But it is also true that the whole character of the Pacific war would change if the U.S. had access to the Pacific coastal area of Russia. . . . It is a major factor in the whole Pacific picture...
...affairs are obliged to rely at times on speculation, deduction or secondary sources is that the State Department's penchant for secrecy and deception makes it impossible to check any really important facts with the Department. . . . An exception is sometimes made for certain docile writers, who are permitted access to files and documents ... in exchange for using that special information in defense of the Department against its critics...
...young Russian Brigadists, interned in a filthy war-prison camp in Delfa for four years, were better informed, better read in world affairs, than American soldiers who had had access to 10,000 newspapers-which they never read...
...from admitting that it is a source of news, A.P. insists that "the source of news lies in the event itself. Access to the source of news is open to all who are willing to expend time, effort and money. News is, therefore, a product which . . "belongs to the producer." In short, A.P. sensibly claims that news events cannot be monopolized. This view does not grapple with the charge, which is that the means of spreading the news is monopolized. Another A.P. argument is that "if the news gathered [by] A.P. and its members were required to be made available...