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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramparts. To Bradley, both the pact and "some military assistance" were needed if Europe was to have both the means and the will to resist aggression. "The North Atlantic pact," said Bradley, "would enable free nations of the Old World and the New to funnel the great strength of our New World to the ramparts of the Old, and thus challenge an enemy where he would transgress . . . Not until we share our strength on a common defensive front can we hope [for] a real deterrent...
Secretary Brannan proposed to let the price of food fall where it would on a free market, while guaranteeing farmers a whopping big cash income, no matter how cheaply their crops sold in the marketplace. To hear him tell it he had "a method which not only protects the farmer but gives consumers a real break...
...carry their two-foot nightsticks during the day, set up 55 heavily patrolled routes over which nonstriking hackies could drive and be protected. The union bragged on the first day that it had kept 97% of the city's 11,814 cabs in the garage. Manhattan streets were free of honking cabs and their aggressive jockeys; it was almost possible to cross a street without danger to life & limb...
Macedonia is divided among Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. The Cominform plan calls for the several parts to be united in a separate "free" Macedonian state (see map). This would isolate Yugoslavia by creating a link between Bulgaria and Albania (both loyal to Stalin), and provide a base from which well-organized Macedonian terrorists would try to foment rebellion within Tito's Yugoslavia. Last month the Communist Macedonian Peoples' Liberation front called for a "struggle to free the Macedonian people from Yugoslav and Greek domination." The Cominform's long-range goal was common knowledge, even in Belgrade: dismemberment...
Unimpressed, the committee voted to put the Mindszenty case on the agenda. The Assembly, not continually hamstrung by veto,* was thus free to fulfill what was perhaps its most important function-to act as the voice of the world's conscience...