Word: blueprinter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laid the foundations of his campaign, had built the walls and roofed them. With three weeks to go he was busily decorating the rooms with devastating caricatures of the New Deal. He was working faster, though just as surely, with an eye to his own timetable and to the blueprint of his campaign. For his house must be built and furnished in time for the American people to buy it, before...
...Dumbarton Oaks, the U.S., Britain and Russia reached a 20-page agreement on world security (TIME, Sept. 25). This week it was learned that the Great Blueprint still requires more ironing-out; the Big Three must confer again over a major point. The point: Britain and the U.S. agree with China that no nation, if it is party to a dispute, should have a vote in settling the dispute. Russia realistically believes that a major power, being a major power, should always have a vote on everything...
...Council, would have a theoretical majority vote. But the Council could not call out the armies against an aggressor without unanimous vote of the Big Four. (The Chinese do not think a party to a dispute should have a vote in settling the dispute; they have observed that the Blueprint makes no provision for checking possible aggression by one of the Big Four-but they will probably not press the point.) Small nations most likely to sit in on the first Council sessions: Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Iran...
Prewar isolationists like Wisconsin's Progressive Senator Bob LaFollette sniffed suspiciously at the Great Blueprint, as if it were a new League of Nations in a slick disguise. Senator Bob's tight grip on his own Progressive Party may be slipping* but in Washington he is still a man to be reckoned with. As a Foreign Relations Committeeman whose Senate seat is good until January 1947, his voice may carry far in the Great Debate. Last week The Progressive, official weekly organ of La Follette's party, complained of "the almost frenzied haste with which the Administration...
From another side of the ideological field Dumbarton Oaks was also attacked. The leftist Nation was encouraged by the fact that the Big Four had decided to work together in peace, no matter how. But the whole Blueprint reminded the Nation of an old-fashioned four-power alliance...