Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice Jackson had a bigger and broader objection. In his angry dissent, the man who was chief U.S. counsel at the Nürnberg trials brought into focus the dilemma of democracy: how to keep its freedoms without delivering itself to its enemies. To Jackson it was clear that Chicago had a clear right to curb a Terminiello, and that the judge's definition was a practical recipe for a concrete situation...
First Encounter. That the Russians wanted such a settlement was becoming increasingly clear. The Russians needed a period in which to work out a new, longer-range strategy for Western Europe, consolidate their far-from-secure position in Eastern Europe, and press their offensive in Asia, where communism faces gigantic opportunities whose exploitation, however, requires time and care...
...position on the eve of the conference was approximately as follows: i) the Russians must give a clear guarantee of the West's rights in Germany; 2) the Russians must accept West Germany's democratic constitution as the basis for any all-German regime; 3) any political setup for Russia's Eastern Germany must be the result of free, Four-Power supervised elections; 4) the U.S. will not now agree to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Germany (although talk persisted that the U.S. might consider moving its troops to port cities and the French frontier...
...election served clear notice that the Communists could not within the foreseeable future hope to win power anywhere in Germany, except by force. It also indicated that the Soviet propaganda line-that Moscow stands for peace and the West stands for war-had reached the point of sharply diminishing returns. Europe now saw that, after the West had raised its ramparts against Communist expansion, the threat of war had receded...
Churchill preserved a dignified silence. Although more & more people felt that it was time for the West to establish some sort of clear-cut relationship with Franco Spain, the Caudillo's invective had won him no friends in Britain, and his coos had moved Washington not a whit. Said one madrileño last week: "We are alone, and always will be-until," he added hopefully, "something happens...