Word: barbour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreign service officer Walworth Barbour says that even overseas while working for the government, the Depression seemed very close. "Everyone was given one month's leave without pay and we were stuck--all because the government wanted to cut down," he says...
...Barbour was stationed in Bulgaria when war was declared. "There was less of it at the beginning, in 1930, and diplomacy was acquiring opprobrium as a striped pants gentlemanly occupation. However, clouds were gathering, clouds which carried the lightning of upheaval, and which still persist today, with different manifestations but with the fundamental ingredient of increasing Soviet power...
...Kremlin pause and think. Not by military tactics, but by the power of its will and preparedness to stop the imbalance, made manifest at all times, and including the inherent threat to employ the military if essential, to continue our existence and that of our equally determined allies," Barbour writes...