Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft had argued that if Russia swept to the Channel, the U.S. could bomb Western Europe's industrial facilities into uselessness. Douglas' answer: "The Europeans cannot be thrilled with joy by the fact that Mr. Taft first offers them aerial aid which he admits will be ineffective, and then promises them that after this has failed, he will destroy their industrial plants and possibly their cities by attacks from the air. This is hardly the way to win friends and influence people, and, in fact, almost no better way than this could be devised to develop anti-American...
Douglas: Is it not true that Korea has pretty well demonstrated that you cannot turn back an aggressive land force by air power alone . . . and will not Communist armies sweep therefore through completely to the English Channel...
...Ordered manufacturers to channel all their copper and brass scrap into "normal trade sources," i.e., not into grey market conversion deals...
...sooner did we arrive at the hotel [in Paris] after a very rough Channel crossing than I found again what a very small place the world is. There in the dining room were Dr. & Mrs. Jessup from Mt. Vernon Street, and Jane Silby and her aunt from Commonwealth Avenue, and the Murrows from Brookline...
...conferences in the Kremlin during those August days in 1942 were sharp and exhausting. Winston Churchill's mission was to explain to Stalin why the cross-Channel invasion would have to be delayed. By turns Stalin was truculent, sardonic, accusing; Churchill direct, blunt, vehement. At last the sessions ended in common understanding, if not complete agreement, and Stalin suggested a "few drinks" in his apartment in the Kremlin. Certainly, said Winston Churchill...