Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collector in D.P. Student drive, European Food Relief, Harvard Combined Charities. James F. Hornig of Winthrop House--Freshman Union Committee, Vice Chairman of Student Council Special Committee on Education, Co-author of the Committee's report: Harvard Education 1948, The Student's View, Combined Charities Drive. Edward Farley Burke of Winthrop House--Harvard Student Council 1947-48, 1948-49, Secretary Harvard Student Council 1948-49, Harvard Debate Council, Treasurer 1947-1949, PBH Speakers & Entertainers Committee, Student Council, Member of PBH Cabinet, member Joint University Council 1947-1948. Hale M. Knight of Winthrop House--Co-chairman, General Education Committee, Student Council...
...reasons that have turned up in support of these pro-Franco suggestions have been wonderfully varied. Farley and Johnston think that Spain would eventually make a fine market for U.S. goods; they maintain that "Spain has always paid its debts." Marshall wanted to keep Spain from going Communist, a noble motive. But the most frequent argument, and the one which Franco himself is now pushing, is that Spain could be a valuable military "bulwark" in case of war with Russia. It is no better an argument than the others...
...James A. Farley and Eric Johnston have been steadily asking for government loans and direct ERP relief to Spain since the beginning of last year. In October, 1948, Senator Chan Gurney, head of the Senate Armed Services-Committee, demanded a military alliance with Franco. At the same time Secretary Marshall stated that we would be willing to allow Spain to join the UN. The State Department has been quictly but steadily permitting private banks to loan Franco money...
...political case is harder to argue. It is true that U.S. aid will unquestionably keep Spain safely anti-Communist. But the threat of Communism in Spain is pretty weak. For Spain remains, despite the blurbs of Franco, Farley, and "Life" magazine, a complete military dictatorship. Whether this dictatorship is more or less strict than it was ten years ago is not the issue. Franco's army of 400,000 men keeps "order," and the General is supported by a single recognized political party. Serious opposition is promptly and inevitably imprisoned or liquidated. All of which adds up to Fascism...
Born. To Ann Farley Hickey, 23, daughter of ex-Postmaster General James A. Farley, and Edward John Hickey, 26: their first child (and big Jim's first grandchild), a daughter; in Detroit. Name: Ellen Louise. Weight...