Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Free Hand. Moving into his spacious office in the grey, temple-fagaded Treasury building next door to the White House, Dillon called for every document since 1789 that provided a job description of the Secretary's portfolio, then set out to make the department his own. Unlike Secretary of State Rusk, Dillon did not have his top echelon of aides picked in advance by Kennedy. He took advantage of his free hand to build a Treasury staff that moneymen rate as possibly the best since the days of Alexander Hamilton. Dillon's right-hand...
...tree in Sicily in September 1943, an unsmiling American general accepted Italy's unconditional surrender. Just 20 months later, the same general, still stiff and frozen faced, met in a French schoolhouse with the emissaries of defeated Nazi Germany, and without outward emotion scribbled his name on the document that ended World War II in Europe. Those two rustic but historic occasions marked the climax of a brilliant military career for Walter Bedell Smith. In the postwar years, he served his nation notably as a diplomat and as chief of intelligence. But it is in his role...
Decay Now, Collapse Later. Throughout rang the repeated cries that the "decayed capitalist shell" is about to break, that "socialism will inevitably succeed capitalism everywhere." Communism's more modest aim is still to catch up with its capitalist rival, the U.S. Curiously, Khrushchev's document has dropped the Soviet pretense that overall industrial output will soon match U.S. production. His target for 1970 is a 150% increase, which would hardly more than equal the U.S. 1960 level. And by 1970, the U.S. itself will have pushed production far above today's mark-barring, of course, the complete...
...Four Words. Moscow's answer to such perplexing capitalist strength, which does not follow the "objective" Communist timetable for the locomotive of history, is fierce, unrelenting attack. The 47,000 words of the new document add up to four favorite words of Nikita Khrushchev: "We will bury you." No chapter of Hitler's Mein Kampf ever spelled out a dictator's goal more clearly: "The success of the struggle which the working class wages will depend on how well the party and the working class master all its forms-peaceful and nonpeaceful, parliamentary and extra-parliamentary...
Similarly, the document considered left-wingers and "welfare statists" hopelessly naive and the pawns of capitalists, but allowed for cooperation with such misguided liberals to serve Communist ends. In the colonialist struggles, even local business groups (in Marxist jargon, "the nationalist bourgeoisie") still have a "progressive role" that is "not yet spent." An orthodox, old-fashioned Marxist theoretician might find some of this ambivalence not very well thought out as doctrine, even while conceding its usefulness as propaganda...