Word: establish
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Risks & Limitations. The decision to re-establish "military posture" was a decision that involved risks and limitations. The chief limitation was that the U.S. as yet had no global foreign policy. There were hosts of issues as yet unresolved. What was to be the future U.S. policy towards Korea and Japan? Was the U.S. to abandon Korea and cling grimly to Japan? Even more important, what would the U.S. do about the front in China...
...emergency policy should establish forthwith a Council of Western Europe consisting of representatives of the governments of the sixteen participating countries in the European Recovery Plan, and Western Germany, to lay down the broad lines of common action. The council should have power to set up permanent international staffs to coordinate the social, economic and defense policies...
Nationalist intelligence had learned a month ago that General Peng was ready to "establish merit" in the northwest. Nationalist planes, based at Sian, were alerted to watch for Red movements. Late in February, near Hangcheng, 5,000 Reds were spotted crossing the Yellow River in dozens of junks. The force headed for the Yellow Dragon mountains in southeast Shensi, where they joined another 4,000 Communists. Down from north Shensi came more. By month's end, General Peng had 60,000 troops...
...Francisco, which wants to widen its narrow lead over Los Angeles as the West's No. i seaport, last week pulled a small coup. It became the third U.S. port to establish a "free trade zone" (the others: New York and New Orleans). In the zone, next to picturesque Fisherman's Wharf, foreign shippers may unload, transship, sort, grade and indefinitely store their merchandise without putting up bonds or going through other costly red tape. Only such goods as are brought into the U.S. are dutiable. The zone will be surrounded by stout wire, and patrolled, to prevent...
Sponsors of yesterday's 57-man advertisement in the CRIMSON declined an invitation from Chicago to establish a formal chapter here, stressing "academic pressures...