Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mashina as a result of a telephonic bawling out from Moscow for being too soft at the July 4 night session. The Russians obviously wanted to delay the Peace Conference as long as possible because they knew that an overwhelming majority of the 21 nations opposed Russia's expansionist program. If the Conference had to be held, Russia wanted to tie it up with rules that would insure Russia against majority rule on the treaties...
...been before. In this lay such hope of agreement as there was. For the West at last realized that, if Hitler's repeated prediction of a deadly clash between the Eastern and Western allies was to be avoided, success would not come through appeasement of Russia's expansionist drive, but by finding a point at which the forces could rest with some mutual security and confidence...
...line is the best guarantee against a new war. He offered a specific solution for the German problem-the indispensable prelude to any real European settlement. Best of all, he forced a showdown on Soviet policy. Fear of German revival has been Russia's excuse for her expansionist policies in Europe. If Russia now refuses the Byrnes offer of joint big-power assistance in guaranteeing her security against such a reincarnation, she will have to find another reason for expansion that does not sound like Hitler's slogans. If Russia accepts, it should end her suspicions about...
...Germany had been able to overrun all these countries while they were "inimical to the Soviet Union." Russia wanted to protect them and herself by bringing them into her own safe sphere, and "how can one, without having lost one's reason, qualify these peaceful aspirations . . . as 'expansionist tendencies...
...sound only if the U.S. maintains full employment and buys enough goods from other nations to make it safe for them to reduce trade barriers. The thoughtful London Observer, in one of the few friendly editorials that appeared in Britain, said that the loan would produce just such an expansionist economy, ended: "We may well wonder in five years' time what all the bother over accepting the agreement was about...