Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, Prime Minister King rose in a hushed House of Commons. First he went out of his way to be conciliatory to the Russian Government ("I hope we can establish the friendliest relations"). That done, he charged Russia with some unfriendly business. Russia, he said, was making Canada "a base for securing information of great importance to the United States and Great Britain." Inside the Dominion, he said, Russian infiltration was approaching fifth column proportions. He said: "It was as serious a situation as had arisen in Canada at any time...
Spain's totalitarian party, the Falange, of which Franco is Caudillo (leader), is another prop. After seven years, it has a strong influence over Spanish youth and a stranglehold on the nation's totally regimented, venally exploited economy. The Falange's mass base is weak (5% to 10% of the population), but most big landowners and businessmen, who live in dread of a mass uprising, give it their allegiance...
...impoverished Spain, niggardly in his achievements. In his way, he seems to understand the importance of modernizing Spain's anachronistic economy. Recently he proclaimed a vague ten-year plan for "national improvements . . . old injustices and abuses will be ended . . . redemption is at hand." To build up a mass base, he is said to be studying the technique of Argentina's Juan...
...York universities and colleges. Said he: "Let's get them in this year even though you will have to sacrifice some of your standards." The educators agreed as "a last resort" to sponsor an emergency two-year college for 12,000 ex-G.I.s at Sampson Naval Base near Geneva. Six upstate colleges will help supply about 1,000 faculty members; the state will put up the cash ($3-to-$5 million). Proposed name: Dewey College...
Last week the only two nations carving out new foreign privileges in East Asia were the Soviet Russians and the Chinese. In Manchuria the Russians had taken back many of the Tsar's concessions-a naval base at Port Arthur, a free port at Dairen, a 30-year partnership in the main Manchurian railways. They were asking for more-reportedly for control of Manchurian heavy industry, long regarded as the key to China's future...