Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main point: let the Big Three meet again, talk over all their differences, re-establish a basis of unity, and brush away the "web of fear" which, he said, shrouds the U.S., Britain, the U.S.S.R. alike...
...Passed a bill to transfer small naval craft to China (to help it establish and train a Navy...
...found that not a single division in the U.S. was fully trained and equipped. Even the staff organization, which was ready in 1940 to guide the growth of the war-born Army, had come loose at the seams. Eisenhower's flat prediction: "It would take another year to establish the framework of an organization with an efficiency that would compare with what...
Finally, on Monday night, Prime Minister King rose in a hushed House of Commons. First he went out of his way to be conciliatory to the Russian Government ("I hope we can establish the friendliest relations"). That done, he charged Russia with some unfriendly business. Russia, he said, was making Canada "a base for securing information of great importance to the United States and Great Britain." Inside the Dominion, he said, Russian infiltration was approaching fifth column proportions. He said: "It was as serious a situation as had arisen in Canada at any time...
...halls and country towns, were cleaning those dirty, economic and political stables of the ancient giants who followed the Civil War, we were part of a world movement. We were-all of us -doing and thinking what men all over Christendom were doing and thinking; we were trying to establish all over the civilized world more equitable human relations. We were trying to distribute the economic surplus of the machine age, and curiously, we thought that if we took the surplus away from the rich and gave it to the poor, we would be achieving our aims." He thinks that...