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Meanwhile, Truman sailed eastward for a seven-week visit to Europe (during which he will write a series of columns for Hearst's King Features Syndicate). Honest Ave Harriman got ready to swing west on a dozen-stop speechmaking tour through seven states. Warming up before he took off, Harriman stepped before the convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union in Atlantic City and created his own slogan to succeed "New Deal" and "Fair Deal." What the U.S. needs to move forward from the Roosevelt-Truman era, he said, is a program based on "New Vision...
...accused Britain and France of turning Hitler eastward against Russia, of betraying Russia at Munich-leaving the Soviet Union no choice but to conclude the Hitler-Stalin pact in self-defense. As he blustered on into a discussion of World War II which depicted Russia as beating Germany singlehanded, the irrepressible Brown muttered: "God forgive you!" Khrushchev stopped abruptly...
...expansion ideology which has been in vogue in the United States for over a century, Dennis argued, has been more unjustified than the German people's eastward expansion. He said that this country never needed "Lebensraum," as the Germans...
...sunny day last September, in the two cars, one painted light blue for Cambridge, one dark blue for Oxford, the adventurers took off. Eastward they drove to Paris, Vienna, Belgrade and on to Beirut, Lebanon, where they camped for a week in a girls' school, temporarily vacant. "By this time," said Cowell, "we were becoming expert in the roving life. We achieved fabulous success at wheedling sleeping places." Often, on country roads they had simply set up their cots under the stars and slept where they were. In cities they had made motels of many an empty shelter, such...
...they followed the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline eastward toward Teheran, open desert stretched for miles on either side, and there was no road of any kind, nothing but the pipeline to mark the route. Yet out of the blue came an Arab truck headed straight for the leading Land Rover, which hastily stopped. Swerving at the last moment, the Arab sideswiped it, tearing a rear fender, and drove on unconcerned...