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...both sides of New York's East River (a buffer between Manhattan and Brooklyn), the news of baseball's Black Friday bounced down on the unbelieving. In all baseball history, there had never been such a roar from the bleachers. It drowned out the news that Ben Chapman, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, had been fired the same day. Loyal Giant rooters vowed never to set foot in the Polo Grounds again. In Brooklyn, there were stand-up-&-fight arguments in Flatbush bars. Breezy Leo Durocher, once referred to as a "moral bankrupt" by a baseball club owner...
...nation. But this trust in the financial ability of each nation will mean little to Europeans when the state Department insists on national purification before the flow of dollars. The avowed purpose of Mr. Harriman's project is to renew confidence in democratic government and to build a European buffer against Russia. Any ill-advised plan to cut off every country smudged by Communism can only serve to defeat these purposes...
Citing Turkey's favorable economic condition in relation to other European countries, the HLU stated flatly that "the loan is to bolster the Turkish army. We are unalterably opposed to setting up buffer armies against the USSR...
...policy had sought to unite the Nationalists and Communists in a liberal coalition government which might serve as a bridge to Russia instead of a buffer against her. "America's predicament" resulted from the difficulties of uniting two hostile powers. One of them (the Nationalist Government), for reasons deep in its history, was compelled to extend democracy with caution. The other (the Chinese Communists) was anti-democratic in philosophy and action. If any American could have achieved Chinese peace and unity, it was certainly General George Marshall. But the degree of U.S. failure was reflected in last week...
...played one of his old records with a new needle: "New Deal squandermania. . . . We are throwing . . . the Treasury wide open to foreign countries." He suggested that if the $3,750,000,000 must be spent, it be used to buy Britain's islands off North America as a buffer against Soviet aggression...