Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Yandell Elliott spoke Tuesday night on "The Polities of One World," and it seemed like a pretty good idea to go and hear him. Evidently the 200-odd people who sat for an hour and a half in the Littauer auditorium thought so too. They were as attentive as a pack of Freshmen sitting down for the first time in History...
...coming official paper that will show how the countries of Eastern Europe are being squeezed dry by the Soviet Union, and that they face a possible deterioration--and soon--as the direct result of being yanked out of their normal and necessary trade relations with the West. And Professor Elliott said he was happy that the Communists were running things in Bulgaria, Romania, etc.... because they'd be blamed for it, and rightly...
...record, for all its blunders, he said, was that of a country that sincerely desired peace and "one world." The U.S. has always been ready for the millenium, he continued, but has unfortunately been balked at almost every turn by Russia. About our activities in Greece, Elliott declared that we would be "untrue to our tradition" if we held back. He spared no pains to remind his audience of Soviet machinations in Eastern Europe, which he felt were "violations as flagrant as any in history" of agreements between nations...
...Elliott was convinced that Palestine was merely another Russian football, and that we were about to be mouse-trapped on it. He thought that Zionism would totter off the stage just as quickly as "indoctrinated" Jews from central Europe were ushered...
...pounded the perfectionists who roared like lions when the San Francisco conference in 1945 didn't whip up a lovely world government. The all-or-nothing group is still moaning about the "lost chance," but Elliott declared that such a full-blown super-state, if somebody had tried to enforce it, would have torn the world to tatters right there and then. The men who framed the charter were practical, he said; they knew that the basic differences between the big powers were too great for paper laws to resolve...