Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the gigantic empty caverns where oratory and reason often mix in unequal proportions, workmen had ripped out the seats and equipment in the Senate and House chambers; ugly steel beams still upheld the ceilings. A visitor to Washington would find the President of the U.S. and Senators and Representatives all working in crabbed quarters...
...fumbling, vacillating attempts to help Nationalist China, the U.S. had actually spent $2 billion. It was a sum, said Acheson, "of proportionately greater magnitude in relation to the budget of that Government than the United States has provided to any nation of Western Europe since the end...
...Oriental Munich." This was the end of the tragic China road-but had not much of it been paved with shiny, good American intentions? Acheson argued vigorously that the U.S. could not have done more: "It is obvious that the American people would not have sanctioned ... a colossal commitment of our armies in 1945 or later . . . The ominous result . . . was beyond the control of the Government of the United States . . . Nothing that this country did or could have done within the reasonable limits of its capabilities could have changed that result; nothing that was left undone by this country...
...dangers to the U.S. in China were "as portentous as those leading to World War II." His recommendation: a sweeping fiveyear aid program, dependent on drastic domestic reforms in China. His prophetic warning: "A 'wait-and-see' policy would lead to ... disturbance verging on chaos, at the end of which the Chinese Communists would emerge as the dominant group." The U.S. did more than ignore Wedemeyer's recommendations. It suppressed release of his report until last week. In releasing it, Dean Acheson gave the Administration's astonishing reason for suppression: Wedemeyer had recommended that Manchuria...
...Ireland, which he thinks is a good place to live, is far from the notions of the ould sod and the emerald isle which many Americans cherish. He sees a nation of peasants-become-freeholders, a nation slowly learning how to make the best of its position "at the end of the queue" of Europe. For the present, however, he strikes a balance: " [We] have no nightingales, but also have no serpents; no moles, also no ballet; no Communist intelligentsia, but also no Catholic intelligentsia...