Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a question whether Brazil's big farmers would be willing to follow Nelson Rockefeller's gleam. And would Brazilian capitalists be attracted by anything but exorbitant profits? Still, a little success would go a long way in big, backward Brazil. And such a commercially helpful hand would be a potent implement to U.S. foreign policy...
...debit side," Salisbury said Russia had suffered great loss of life and damage to her country during the war, her technology was backward, and the people were "exhausted." All in all, he said, Russia fears war, and presumably-would direct her foreign policy toward preservation of peace...
...exactly eight days-between the Paris Conference's end and the convening of the U.N.'s General Assembly in New York-the world had a chance to draw breath, to look both backward & forward along the rough road it was traveling. The peacemakers and world rebuilders were, most of them, in transit (see below). The world's troubles rode with them every mile...
...Looking backward, the most important event of the year, between the United Nations Assembly meeting at London and its second sitting this week in New York, was the clarification of U.S. foreign policy. A year ago neither the friends nor the antagonists of the U.S. had a clear idea of where the U.S. stood. Today the world sees the U.S. as a leading champion among the great powers of a strong United Nations and as an active participant in the discussion of every international issue, from Stettin around to Harbin...
...simply that the greatest bar to the communization of western Europe is, paradoxically, the existence of Communist Russia, of whom western Europe is so mortally afraid that even western Europeans who might under ordinary circumstances be Communists have been turned into conservatives because Communism means domination by a backward and deeply distrusted nation. Those few who believe in coming to terms with Russia no longer argue that Russia has a superior social philosophy to give the world. They simply argue that the Russians are a power to be reckoned with, and and that will still be there when...