Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally we are told that this $20,000,000 loan is just hard-headed business--we loan them money to build up their mines and some war-damaged industries, and in return we get large supplies of Yugoslav-mined strategic materials. You can't pull the wool love the American businessman's eyes...
...fatal weakness of American foreign policy is the practice of mere anti-communism (or anti-Russianism, if you prefer). We supported Chiang's Knominatang government in China not because we like Chiang, nor because we wanted to back a winner, but because he was staunchly anti-communist. It would have taken diplomatic courage to have shifted to the Chinese Communists when we had a chance; or to have moved fast and incisively to construct a government out of the few "liberals" in the country at the time. But we couldn't possibly have gotten into a worse mess than...
Outside, as well as within the University, Professor Cross was active in Russian affairs. He served on many American missions to Europe and was President Roosevelt's interpreter during White House Conferences with Foreign Minister Molotov in 1942. After World War I he was detailed to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and also served as American Trade Commissioner to Belgium in the early...
...Cross Professorship is named in honor of the late Professor Samuel H. Cross '12, who was for many hears prior to his death in 1946 a leading American authority on the languages and cultures of Eastern Europe...
...noticed too that Dutch sailors and American movies have introduced a new set of dance steps into Holland that is all the rage. They call it "yitter-bugging...