Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doves & Honey. Working his way back east, Candidate Truman bore down on his theme that the Republican Congress wants to put control of Government-developed power "into the hands of hijackers-so they can stick you with high prices." At El Paso he charged that Republican leaders in Congress had "cut the reclamation program for the West by more than 50%." He continued: "Now, what do you suppose the Republican chairman of the Appropriations Committee [New York's John Taber] thought about your protests? He said, 'The West is squealing like a stuck pig.' That is what...
...Western envoys again meet Stalin and receive his personal draft of a directive to the Allied military governors in Berlin. This provides for lifting the blockade, and for circulation in Berlin of the Russian mark under four-power control. All this is subject to agreement, by the military governors, upon the "practical implementation" of the vaguely worded Moscow "agreement in principle...
...SEPT. 7. In Berlin, Marshal Sokolovsky plainly ignores the directive, demands further restrictions (on air traffic) before even talking about relaxing any restrictions whatever. He also demands Soviet control over all trade between Berlin and the Western zones...
...days later, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky strode to the rostrum. In his best prosecutor's fashion, he once more listed U.S. citizens whom he considered warmongers (Secretary James Forrestal, Senator Styles Bridges, et al). Vishinsky proposed an international control body under the Security Council (where Russia has a veto) to supervise a general 33⅓% armament reduction. He also repeated Russia's demand for the immediate outlawing of the atomic bomb. That was the old story -Russia wants the U.S. to destroy its bombs but at the same time Russia refuses to accept an international control...
Said Bevin: "If the black fury, the incalculable disaster of atomic war, should fall upon us, one power, by refusing its cooperation in the control and development of those great new forces . . . will alone be responsible for the evils which may be visited upon mankind . . ." Swiveling his great bulk toward Vishinsky, Bevin cried: "If the Soviet representative had any feeling for the simple people of Europe or the world, if he were animated by anything but out-of-date, backward, unscientific doctrine, he would be the first to applaud the great, unselfish contribution of the United States to world recovery...