Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lead in the fight for partition, the world looked to it for a solution of the developing conflict. The U.S. Government considered calling for an international force contributed by U.N. members. But that might open the door for Russian participation, which the U.S. wants to avoid. Rather than allow Russian troops a foothold in the Middle East, the U.S. might take on the job itself. Military authorities estimated that at least 50,000 troops would be required; sending such a force in 1948 might create a hotter U.S. political issue than the one Washington tried to avoid by accepting Zionist...
...Committee states one decision relevant to the coming elections for 1948 Class posts in crystal-clear language: "Preferential and weighted balloting were both discarded for the straight numerical system. Either system is too complicated to be practical in a College election. Both allow a minority group to get a man into office on a small number of votes by capitalizing on the failure of the large group of voters who in any case will not indicate their preference." In light of the interlocking nature of the Report's recommendations the threatened rejection of this point of view would in effect...
...Communists promptly seconded Molotov by adopting the slogan: "The Fatherland is in danger." In fact, the U.S. and Britain favor (and France will accept) a unified Germany. What the Western powers will resist at London is either a Communist-dominated Germany or the kind of international arrangement which will allow the Russian veto to paralyze recovery and leave both Germany and Western Europe in an economic morass...
Mexico's Ramon Beteta said that the effort to lower tariffs for highly developed and undeveloped countries "is treating unequals with equality." He explained that great industrialized creditor nations should cut their tariffs and yet allow developing nations to impose protective restrictions...
Communists are busily shaping each of the six satellite countries to a set Marxist pattern as fast as the national character will allow. Each is getting what Americans call "the works" and Soviets more solemnly call vypolnenye plana, "plan fulfillment...