Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bravo for the straight-from-the shoulder, comprehensive article on MacArthur and America's debt to Asia...
...stenographers to answer them. There were literally trunksful of letters inquiring about the ripper. The money sent to us in envelopes was amazing, but it was all sent back because we were not in production at the time. There were also phone calls and cables from Italy, South America, Japan, Alaska, Germany, and other countries. It was all the more exciting to us because my husband and I have been readers of TIME for many years...
Before.leaving by the front door, Dean Acheson slammed America's back door behind him. To such apprehensive nations as Australia and Korea, which had cried aloud for a Pacific pact, Secretary Acheson answered: the time was not ripe. Obviously, he was directing all his attention to Europe at the moment...
Franco tried to show that he was really a good democrat. In buttering up the U.S. and Latin America, he turned angrily on his fellow Europeans. "The European nations are so incapable, so old and so divided, and their politics so full of Marxism, passions and rancors," he said, "that it is natural for us to look toward America. The sea is no longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song...
...Have More Guts." While asking America's love, Franco turned his heaviest fire on Britain. At a luncheon in 1941, he claimed, Winston Churchill had promised the Spanish Ambassador, in the presence of Anthony Eden and Sir Samuel Hoare (now Viscount Templewood), that after the war Britain would help Spain to become a dominant power in the Mediterranean. But Britain had betrayed that promise. After his hour-and-a-half speech, Franco returned to Madrid's royal palace, through streets loud with posters proclaiming: "Down with England!" and "We have more guts than all U.N. put together." From...