Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was the British Government going to do about the onrushing crisis? The way Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had snapped up the "Marshall approach" left no doubts where his hopes...
...work for Europe at a higher production level. This will be even more difficult for a Frenchman than for a citizen of New Hampshire to resign himself to seeing another $15 billion go out of the U.S. But unless both France and New Hampshire face the facts, the "Marshall approach" will not work...
...much chance has it anyway? Nobody can say until the work now beginning in Paris (see INTERNATIONAL) comes to fruit next September. But the prospects are far from hopeless. Apparently the Kremlin thinks the "Marshall approach" is a pretty good move-on the U.S. side of the board. Before Molotov in Paris turned down the invitation to participate, the argument in Moscow's Politburo may have gone like this...
...world, as well as the Kremlin's Politburo, wondered whether the U.S. Congress and people would back the "Marshall approach." So far, Congress is showing both a healthy skepticism and an unhealthy cynicism. One U.S. Senator said privately last week that he was willing to see Europe get $5 or $6 billion-but no more. If Europe's recovery could be bought for $5 billion instead of $15 billion, that would be fine. On the other hand, if $5 billion gets Europe only a third of the way out of the pit, $5 billion would be a waste...
...Marshall approach" is one obvious way of trying to stave off a situation in which war would be inevitable. Another attempt is the Wedemeyer mission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to find out how to help China and Korea stay out of the hands of the Communists. If that mission develops a "Wedemeyer approach" to Asia, it may cost the U.S. a few billions...