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...sending of American Marines and equipment to bolster Chiang Kai-Shek) as long as the military and big businessmen of the Dulles-Forrestal variety exercise such tremendous control over this country's approach to foreign and domestic issues, that for this period, we shall remain as before: draft-bait. A sudden "emergency" could well play havoc with the "deferment" policy...
Gloomy Evening. The bait that lured Benny to the younger network (beginning Jan. 2) was the same bait that, two months ago, detached Amos 'n' Andy from NBC (TIME, Sept. 20). Reports in the trade said that CBS offered a sizable (but undisclosed) salary for Benny's services. CBS would only confirm that it had bought his program for "somewhat more than...
...military operations, financial aid to stabilize the currency, and strict U.S. supervision of the distribution of U.S. money and supplies. Clark's conclusions: "Piecemeal aid will no longer save failing China from Communism. It is now an all-out program or none; a fish-or-cut-bait proposition...
...July 1944, Mikolajczyk and Professor Stanislaw Grabski, an elderly Polish democrat, flew from London to Moscow. Stalin wanted the Polish government in London to merge with his own Lublin Committee, consisting of Polish Communists and stooge socialists. As bait, he offered to ease the Teheran partitioning (the Curzon Line). Mention of the Curzon Line and of the Lublin Poles set Grabski off. He "began to beat on Stalin's table. He spoke for 45 minutes in Russian about the criminal injustices that were being heaped on Poland. When Grabski finished, winded, Stalin got up and patted the indignant...
...other such towns were already being planned, native industries had been developed, unemployment was down 25%. As tourist bait, the government had started building broad avenues and pavilions for next year's International Exposition at Port-au-Prince, and a new law required businessmen in the. capital's downtown district to install glass show windows and hang out electric signs...