Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regrettable that Father Murray refuses to answer in a serious manner the expressed dangers to traditional American ideals posed by the Roman Catholic Church . . . Romanism at present is bearing the brunt of Communistic attacks against religion, and is needing the aid and sympathy of all Christian people...
...Soviet Union will achieve atomic weapons. When that day will be, no man knows. But that it will come is as certain as that I stand on the floor of the Senate today." McMahon was reciting the arguments for the Administration's $1,314,010,000 military-aid program...
...Tools. Then, still 18 hours before news of Russia's advance to the atomic bomb, the Senate approved the arms bill, 55 to 24, allocating $1 billion for eight Atlantic pact partners in Europe, $211 million for Greek-Turkish aid, $27 million for Korea, Iran and the Philippines. Also approved: $75 million for aid to China, to be spent at the discretion of the President...
With the Senate's passage of the aid bill came word of the President's first choice as director of the arms-for-Europe program: 56-year-old James Bruce, ex-Maryland stock farmer and international banker, who recently resigned as U.S. ambassador to Argentina. If he takes the $16,000-a-year job, Bruce will direct the flow and placement of U.S. weapons in Europe as ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman now directs Marshall aid...
...almost certain to impel a brand of Western unity which otherwise might be years in the forging. Plain common peril might be translated into plain common courage. Moscow's atom-smashing made obsolete no major part of a political strategy that embraced the Atlantic pact, U.S. military aid to Europe, and restoration of Europe's economic health. The U.S. did not have to change what it was doing. It had only to do it better and faster...