Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of saturation bombing over Germany could be accomplished in a matter of hours in the next war. Yet, under the U.M.T. plan, it would take a year to mobilize "an effective force of around 7,500,000!" It appears, then, that having a nation of men with basic training would be useless, for under atomic, chemical and bacterial invasion we could never get them mobilized...
...attacked the bill's basic philosophy, argued that it would compound the troubles it was designed to correct: "It would require the Government, in effect, to become an unwanted participant at every bargaining table . . . involve the Government in the free process of our economic system to a degree unprecedented in peacetime...
...these wholesome doubts and cautions had to be understood against the background of the basic French reaction. TIME'S Paris Correspondent André Laguerre summed it up: "The fear that Americans may not back Marshall to the limit is the only factor tempering the enthusiasm of French opinion-just as the fear that the D-day landings in 1944 might not be successful added anxiety to that great news. In the French mind, the two events can be compared without injustice...
Russian moves to gain a voice in top-level discussion of the Marshall proposals, plus President Truman's efforts to begin implementing the plan with concrete discussions of its domestic effects, all point to a rapidly developing situation for which a basic foundation has hardly been laid...
Resurrection of the Old Shirts. The average Spaniard is no worse off than a year ago. Basic prices have not risen since then. The year's crop was good, and Argentina is sending wheat. Franco is not threatened by an immediate economic crisis. Two years ago, with Naziism's defeat, the regime was panicky. One year ago it just began to recover. Today it is plain cocky...