Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration. Although the nation had long since pledged $1,350,000,000 (1% of its 1943 national income) to UNRRA, the final $550,000,000 was still unappropriated. Why? Because the House had tacked on an amendment barring use of the funds in countries which do not give free access to U.S. news correspondents (i.e., Russia and her satellites), and UNRRA's U.S. representatives said this provision was unworkable...
...sure if the circumstances were reversed and we or the Americans asked for similar access to the Russian arsenal, it would not be granted. ... I cannot myself feel the slightest anxiety as a Brit ish subject that these great powers are at the present moment in the hands of the United States. ... We should aid the United States to guard this weapon as a sacred trust for the maintenance of peace...
...major powers have access to the necessary raw materials...
...newsmen, said Harry Truman, have a right to equal access to the news in Washington. Then, the President added, he hoped that American newsmen would have equal access abroad...
Port Arthur will become a Russian naval base-but the Chinese navy, when there is one, will have access to it; civil administration of the port will be Chinese. Russia gets the use of another port, Dairen, on equal terms with China; the harbor master will be a Russian...