Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...guest during the Rio de Janeiro defense conference in 1947 and the U.S. President was returning hospitality in the homely, natural way he likes best. Accompanied only by two Secret Service men and an interpreter, Guide Truman led his guest through the White House grounds. Along the curving iron back fence he pointed out where the Potomac once flowed before it shifted course, and told a story, probably apocryphal, about another early-rising American President...
Strolling on across the Ellipse, Harry Truman led his guest to the foot of the Washington Monument, and told Dutra how schoolchildren had paid for the monument with their pennies. After 40 minutes, the two Presidents were back at Blair House...
...Clay was a U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1910). A few minutes later General Clay sat in a Pentagon press conference, firing answers at newsmen as fast as they could write them down. (Would Germany ally herself with Russia? ". . . Only if the Western powers [were] unwilling to accept Germany back into the community of nations." The future of East-West relations? "I don't think we should ever forget that this is a real struggle between democracy and communism-and that it is going to continue for many years...
...Final Flourish. The next day General Clay climbed nervously into an open convertible, sat himself on the top of the back seat and rolled slowly up Broadway to receive Manhattan's traditional hero's welcome-the cheers of 250,000, a bath of ticker tape and confetti and a key to the city from Mayor William O'Dwyer...