Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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UNESCO is hampered not only by all the difficulties of establishing worldwide communication of ideas, but also by a shortage of appropriations. Its world budget is only $7,500,000, while the Voice of America gets...
...Pacific northwest, GOP candidate Governor Dewey charted a vast development of natural resources to give America "more power to wage the peace." Dewey's running mate Governor Warren entered New England, declaring that government must be revitalized at the state and local level...
...Peace? Hatred of America is systematically inculcated in Russians. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow (relates Welles) never locks its front door-because the penalties for associating with Americans are far heavier than the penalties for theft. He recalls Lenin's words: "We cannot live in peace; memorial services will either be sung over the Soviet republic or world capitalism." Welles nevertheless believes that war with Russia can be avoided forever if the U.S. will help non-Communist countries to help themselves...
...moving passage, he speaks to the Russians: "Your rulers tell you many harsh things about America . . . Yet any American who visits the Soviet Union comes away deeply aware that, for all his country's shortcomings, America has a most precious heritage: freedom. Not the four freedoms, or this freedom, or that one. Freedom . . . We Americans hope that some day you may find out these things. We hope against hope that some day your leaders, who take such pride in having taught you how to read, will let you decide for yourselves what to read. Only then would...
Last spring, Professor Shapley, who is also honorary chairman of the Massachusetts Progressive Citizens of America, turned down a bid by that organization to run for governor on the Wallace ticket. He claimed such a candidacy "would obstruct whatever effectiveness I may have in promoting civil liberties and progressive legislation...