Word: east-west
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...future, the Soviets may make legitimate movements toward the settlement of international disputes. They may work honestly to effect a Truman-Stalin meeting without ballyhoo and propagandizing motives. This would be an excellent beginning to East-West agreements, and it must be earnestly followed up by Washington. But even this could not solve the world's troubles. There can be no side-sweeping Truman-Stalin "deals." Only a concert of Western powers can bargain with Russia. If Truman and Stalin tried to compromise their way to a more comfortable "peace," the patient work of the North Atlantic group of powers...
...Chengchow, a rail junction for east-west and north-south traffic in Honan, two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the Communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...
...East-West Chess...
Your analysis of the China Nationalist position is a masterpiece. When it is fully realized that the East-West situation in Europe is merely the feint, it may be too late to prevent China from being our "coup de grace" in this world game of chess...
Almost visibly and audibly gnashing their teeth, the Communists denounced the West-sector elections as "illegal" because of "fraud and terror." They blocked mail deliveries across the East-West line.* They put East Berlin's fire department under their tough police chief, Paul Mark-graf, to make sure that it would not go to any non-Communist fires. They set up new restrictions against automotive traffic, and even withdrew railway cars which had served West Berlin for garbage removal...