Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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take the question of aid to Tito. There are a great many short-range, short-sighted arguments for giving aid to Yugoslavia--devilishly attractive arguments, the kind of arguments to which one can so easily say: "150 million Americans and the State Department can't be wrong." I believe they are wrong, wrong because they are thinking too precisely on the event, gazing rapturously at the free without noticing the nature of the forest...
...Tito will not raise America in the eyes of the non-partisan world. The people of the great battleground of southeast Asia will not be happy to hear that the United States has given $20,000,000 to Tito in order to keep open a gap in the Iron Curtain--to play politics, that is--when the U. S. Congress can scarcely bring itself to consider appropriating $35,000,000 for much-needed services to poor nations, under the Point Four program. We have presented the Russian propagandists with a ready-made, gold-plated argument for use not only...
...have gotten into a worse mess than we are now in. We also supported the present Greek government, with the Truman Doctrine, not because we like corruption or fascism, but because it was a good way to keep the Russians out of the Mediterranean. We thereby vitiated to a great extent our high moral stand in international politics...
Making a picture on prejudice is a very difficult procedure. And when a love story is mixed into the formula, the possible blunders are multiplied manifold. "Pinky" does not quite escape all of these mistakes and thus misses being a great picture...
...Harvard coach Bruce Munro is hoping his team will be functioning at least as well as it did Saturday in the Army game. Then, he says, his charges played one period of "great soccer" and protected its lead the rest...