Word: bullitts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain, and France. If Russia is sincerely desirous of world peace, but continues in her present policy of confusion and mystory, she will not only find herself friendless, but faced with a world in which the men of good will have joined forces with Winston Churchill and William C. Bullitt...
...Great Globe Itself, pugnacious Bill Bullitt's latest book, is rounded out with chapters about Russian history and World Wars I & II, plus a trio of lengthy appendices listing the instances of Soviet military aggression, treaty-breaking and antidemocratic political chicanery. But the book's heart is in the relatively few pages in which ex-Ambassador Bullitt brusquely presses upon the American public the necessity of taking prompt steps to surround the U.S.S.R. with democratic military forces...
...Insubstantial Pageant." Bullitt's good friend, the late President Roosevelt, made one of the most disastrous errors in U.S. history, says Bullitt, when he furnished Lend-Lease aid to the U.S.S.R. without exacting, in return, assurances of a pacific Soviet foreign policy in the postwar period. Present U.S. leaders, Bullitt believes, will make an even worse error if they pin their faith to the "insubstantial pageant" of U.N. Bullitt believes that no doubt remains that Soviet aims stop short at nothing less than domination of the globe. Western Europe, the Middle East and the British Empire will, says Bullitt...
...Bullitt's plans for halting Russia are militaristic and extreme. Without delay, he insists, the U.S. and Britain must organize the remaining democratic nations of Europe into an "Inter-European League" (membership would also be open to the Anglo-American-controlled sectors of Germany). Britain and the U.S. will not only do their utmost to raise these nations' standards of living (i.e., increase their fighting strength), but will promise them prompt military aid in the event of their coming into conflict with an expanding U.S.S.R. Simultaneously, intensive anti-Soviet propaganda must be carried on throughout Europe, and extended...
...total, concludes Author Bullitt, would be a world organization named the "Defense League of Democratic States." But in its infancy, the power of such a League would rest primarily on two U.S. means of forceful persuasion - a mammoth air force and a soaring stockpile of atomic bombs...