Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words of the Wallace foreign policy argument echoed and re-echoed. Onetime Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau went down the line: outlaw the atom bomb, reduce armaments, stick to the Four Freedoms of F.D.R. Said Harold Ickes: "We must spare no effort to get along with Russia...
...hammer out its program there was little doubt what it would be. The main points, as expected: 1) a Wallace-inspired foreign policy (withdraw U.S. troops from China; combat "imperialism" wherever found; extend economic aid to war-devastated countries; eliminate the step-by-step proposal of the Baruch atom control plan); a New Dealing domestic policy (price & rent controls; a federal civil rights bill; extended social security; minimum wages; soak-the-rich taxation); 3) a resolution applauding Henry Wallace. A permanent committee of 50 would be appointed after the November elections to keep the ball rolling...
...controlled by Moscow, and that certain "military-political agents" (ostensibly in the U.S.) are stirring up war rumors in order to delay demobilization (actually, the U.S. is disarming at a far more rapid rate than Russia). Some were self-contradictory-such as his swaggering assertion that the atom bomb was merely a weapon to "intimidate weak nerves," but that it nevertheless constituted a threat to world peace.† Other things, such as his assertion that Russia was not planning to use Germany against the West, were made suspect by current Soviet policy and pronouncements. Three days after Stalin...
Said Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin: "A little lifting of the clouds. . . . But . . . it is the approach in the conference room to actual problems . . . that matters." Cried Otto Grotewohl, leader of Germany's Communist-run S.E.D.: "Here speaks a man free of atom-bomb - psychosis. . . . " Said Paris' L'Epogue: "Stalin must not take us for moujiks. . . ." Said L'Aurore: "Stalin says: 'My hammer works for peace.' We reply: 'Then stop sharpening your sickle...
...author of the second offering, a musical comedy on the atom bomb, is Sheldon Glueck, professor of Criminal Law and Criminalology at the Law School. Glueck sired the book and lyrics, while William Hughes, student of international law at the University of Chicago, fathered the music...