Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long months he had wrestled with the dilemma of controlling inflation with high taxes, spurring production with low taxes...
Despite the fact that he could hand-pick his subordinates, Spruille Braden faced a dilemma. Last week an old hand at Latin American affairs put his finger on it. Wrote onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles in his New York Herald Tribune column: "For over two years I have warned that the policy of the Department of State would arouse popular support for the military leaders and weaken [Argentina's] liberal and democratic forces. [This policy] helped to bring about [Peron's] triumph...
This week the State Department tried to get out of its dilemma. Secretary of State James Byrnes, saying he spoke for a majority of the American republics, offered to include Argentina in the pact as soon as Peron wiped out the "Axis influences" in his country. We wanted "deeds and not merely promises," huffed Jimmy Byrnes...
Southern tempers subsided-for the time being. But the incident was the perfect illustration of Bob Hannegan's election-year dilemma: how to persuade P.A.C.-hating and P.A.C.-loving Congressmen that they are all good Democrats under the skin...
...these circumstances might also plunge Spain again into the abyss of civil war. The western democracies knew, and Franco knew they knew, that civil war might bring civil chaos and Communism's great opportunity. Franco's confident defiance sprang from misunderstanding of the West's dilemma...