Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helping the eastern European countries achieve at lest a measure of freedom from Russia will weaken the Russian influence on communist groups outside the Soviet sphere. De-Russianizing Western European communists, in particular, will greatly reduce their threat to our hegemony of Western Europe...
...reasoning in the orthodox pragmatic argument for aid to Tito, as outlined above, admitting from the beginning that the move is political. Adherents to this view think in terms of immediate political prospects in Yugoslavia, and by extension bring into the picture both nearby Iron Curtain countries and Western European communists. Essentially they are trying to reduce the complex issue to a simple, individual case that can be solved upon consideration of a few elementary facts. Just as the people who believe he aid is non-political fail to see the political factor in the situation, the people who think...
Next Monday the American Ambassador to Yugoslavia is flying to London to discuss the "Tito Question" with the European Command of the State Department. Out of these talks should come a major decision on future American policy in Europe. Is the West content to maintain the status quo with Russia, or should it attempt to push the border back by encouraging unorthodoxy and nationalism among non-Russian communists? The U. S. is already committed to a $20,000,000 loan to Tito. The subject now is how much more help--if any--should be sent. In making up its mind...
...Foreign Affairs Committee several arguments have been raised against this aid. First of all there is the question of cost to this country, which is already committed to the European Recovery Plan, and to arms aid to Atlantic Pact countries, not to speak of heavy military expenditures at home. Although the Administration expects private capital to provide most of the funds in future years, it admits that the government must do the initial financing, and continue to give some help thereafter for as long as the program is necessary...
...close of the meeting, Finch stressed the importance to the Seminar of the Student Council sponsorship as a valuable link between American and European students...