Word: forthright
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...Army George Catlett Marshall, the new U.S. special envoy to China, will be armed for the job as few U.S. diplomats have been armed in years. President Truman had given notice: the General will have a new policy in black & white. It is expected to be a forthright and historic statement of U.S. policy toward China to guide him and all with whom he would deal...
...policy is expected to be unequivocal: open, forthright cooperation with Chiang Kai-shek's National Government, serving notice on the Chinese Communists that the U S. will not be deterred from carrying out its promise to assist the Chungking Government in taking over North China and Manchuria from the Japanese...
Some suspected that the Uruguayan note had originated in Spruille Braden's office. They were wrong. But the U.S. State Department was going all out to line up the lesser republics behind a forthright policy of intervention when & where intervention seemed necessary...
Jimmy Byrnes's approach to a China policy had been frankly tempered by U.S. political implications, and he had put down his warnings in a memorandum to President Truman. The Secretary knew that a forthright, cooperative policy toward Chiang would bring down on the Administration the wrath of 1) those who could see no good reason for keeping U.S. forces in China; 2) those "liberals" and leftists who saw the solution of the China problem not in control by Chiang, but in control by the Chinese Communists...
Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts' Indian-nosed Harvardman (where he was a member of Hasty Pudding and Porcellian), took a forthright stand for Indian pudding as the nation's prize dish-"sweet . . . nourishing . . . sends you away . . . with a satisfied feeling." Breaking home-grown-dish precedent, he declared candidly that his favorite recipe was not handed down in his family for generations. Said he: "We just found it in a cookbook...