Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their large trading interests in China. Advocates of recognition in the U.S., whose China trade has always been relatively small, advance more speculative reasons. Most of them base their position on two assumptions: 1) the Chinese Communists, busy with staggering internal problems, are not likely soon to launch an expansionist policy in Asia; 2) Red Chinese Boss Mao Tse-tung is likely to become an Asian Tito. Therefore, argue the advocates of recognition-many of them in the U.S. State Department, which is still trying to figure out a U.S. policy for Asia-the Chinese Communists ought to be officially...
...Tito will show Russia that we do not like her expansionist tendencies (this, by some idiot logic, is said to lower the tension of the cold war). It will also, if the Iron, Curtain countries cooperate, stimulate trade between East and West which will help Europe get on its economic feet and help break down the barrier now existent between the two regions...
...even though Nagoya's sleepy isolation and commercial torpor are worlds away from the energetic, expansionist drive of Osaka, the problems that the two cities have to face are largely the same. Japan must live on its exports. To export profitably, it must change its trade patterns, send heavy machinery where it once sent textiles, step up its export of bicycles, eventually export airplanes. Japanese managers and engineers must pull up their socks and streamline their subsidy-softened industries...
...Irresistible Surge. The Franco regime is an old-fashioned dictatorship. It is not dynamic and expansionist like Nazi Germany or Bolshevist Russia. It clings to old institutions and traditions, notably the Church, instead of trying to replace them. It is not strongly ideological. It does not propagandize itself as the Utopian answer to everything, or as an irresistible surge of historical force. Franco himself calls his government "provisional" and speaks of a future return to "normalization...
Firmnosa towards Russia will cause the U.S.S.R. to curb its expansionist program and would prevent war, President Conant told the seventeenth annual New York Herald Tribune forum Tuesday night...