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...main arteries to Europe. Each week, four or five ships of half a dozen lines leave U.S. ports for Antwerp and Rotterdam. Some carry only a tenth of their cargo capacity, and many lose money on the run. But all the lines have the same idea: to entrench themselves for the day when the U.S.-Lowlands route may carry as much as 3,000,000 tons of freight a year between the U.S. and a restored Western Europe...
...must design a foreign policy which will espouse and promote liberal, humanitarian programs for the masses of people of the world. It must strengthen the democratic forces in other nations and not entrench reactionary interests that thirst for power...
...fascinated Government officials he explained: "We were taught that it is essential for the Communist Party to entrench itself in the basic and key industries to foment strikes, the paralyzing of the economy, the arming of the workers and the winning over of the armed forces to become allies of the workers for the purpose of overthrowing the Government." He had often conferred with Santo, he said, explaining that "Santo's job was to organize the subway system in the City of New York...
...Communists that alternative? They have redivided the land and instituted basic economic changes and have maintained a correct aloofness toward their Soviet God-fathers. Yet the label of "agrarian liberalism," as applied by the authors, cannot quell fears of democrats who have watched police states entrench themselves in the vacuum left by moderates who are terrified by change. Theodore White and Miss Jacoby feel that American policy has more to offer than an endorsement of a social structure that the great mass of Chinese rejects. By pressuring the Nanking government into the widest possible program of reform, the State Department...
...elementary rights of man" was good stuff, "sound." That didn't mean, explained rugged Spruille, that the U.S. was going to "send the Marines anywhere." But neither would Uncle Sam sit around, hands in pockets, "while the Nazi-fascist ideology against which we fought a war endeavors to entrench itself in this hemisphere...