Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree upon a thorough ten-year test. Let us begin promptly to join together-government, labor, business and agriculture-and to do everything possible to champion and encourage and develop the basic American system...
...Atcheson had submitted "a broad and thoughtful analysis of the [China] situation as it appeared to him ... an honest effort to assist the Department of State in the formulation of its future policy." John Service had written, in "forceful language" and with some "rather drastic" conclusions, "recommendations for a basic change in U.S. policy" toward Chiang's Government. But this, purred Jimmy Byrnes, was merely one foreign-service man's view, expressed through the proper channels...
...Some Basic Agreement...
...some basic issues, however, the speakers found points of agreement. Professor Sorokin built his argument around the principle that "an integrated system of values is more important to happiness than empiricism," white Wild asserted that "we must learn to think a subject through to its basic issues." Though Williams agreed that rationality was essential, he felt that in itself it had its limits: "Men cannot stand the strain of rationality," he said...
Politician Byrnes told Pat Hurley that the President wanted him to go back to China and patch things up. Hurley brought up his past experiences. The Secretary avoided the past, talked about the future. There was no talk about a basic change in U.S. policy. When Pat Hurley left, he put his letter of resignation on Jimmy Byrnes's desk. The Secretary left it there. He apparently believed that he had persuaded the Ambassador to return to Chungking...