Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Republicans have harshly criticized the Marshall mission of two years ago, which attempted to bring both sides together in a coalition government. Now as then, however, the single alternative to that program is American military support of the Civil War. Such support cannot save the fascistic Kuomintang and will only further estrange the liberals whose friendship is essential to the reconstruction of China along Western lines. In view of the present fiasco, the only realistic policy is to recognize Chiang's defeat and his inability to govern any longer...
Britain, it seemed, was beginning to pull out of its economic swamp; the French government had finally decided to govern, rather than let Communist sabotage wreck its recovery efforts; and Western Germany was going through an economic resurgence that held out bright hope to all of Western Europe (see FOREIGN NEWS). Western strength was expressed still another way, and that was the changing mood and mettle of Western Europe's people...
Nine months after attaining its independence, Burma was falling apart. A battle royal of rebellion, mutiny and murder surged around Rangoon. The government could not govern, the army scarcely knew whom to fight. Last week the guns of the Burmese Navy frigate Mayu drove rebels from Syriam, a town only a mile and a half from the capital...
...friends of France abroad and infuriating her people at home. The large number of French parties, fostered by a system of proportional representation, means that one party can hardly ever control more than 35% of the National Assembly. This in turn means that the party in power must govern in coalition with other parties-which keep a jealous watch and often kick over the traces when they get restive...
...Southern leaders were on their feet. Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody offered the South's minority report defining the sovereignty of the states. Two other Southerners, Mississippi's Walter Sillers and Cecil Sims of Tennessee, followed with similar amendments. Cried Sillers: "Give us the right to govern our own fundamental affairs!" Then ex-Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, of Wisconsin, a onetime Socialist who helped manage Norman Thomas' campaign in 1932, a colleague of Humphrey on the platform committee, presented the Northern minority report on civil rights...