Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FULLY RECOGNIZING YOUR KEEN INTEREST IN AROUSING AMERICA TO REAL MENACE OF COMMUNISM, MAY I CALL UPON YOU TO HELP GREEK NATION PRESENTLY ENGAGED IN DEATH STRUGGLE WITH FORCES OF COMMUNISM, OUTCOME OF WHICH IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO WESTERN DEMOCRACIES, AND VERY PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH WE IN AMERICA FIGHT...
Greek government troops, with U.S. help, have lately made progress against the Communist rebels. Although Tito has cut down on his aid, Soviet satellites Bulgaria and Albania continue to train and equip the Greek Reds. On both sides of the Iron Curtain the struggle for Greece is watched intently. Failure to clean out the Communist bands will be taken as evidence that the anti-Communist world has no effective answer to Communist rebellion...
...short-term resident of Britain, I heartily endorse your sympathetic evaluation of Aneurin Bevan and his part in the socialization of Britain [TIME, March 21]. Thank you for your help in enabling Americans . . . to understand the comparatively quiet but nonetheless gigantic revolution in one of the world's greatest nations...
...seventh day of debate the Senate had taken on all the rash-marks of a baby filibuster. But this time the opposition could not muster the votes. At week's end 23 Republicans lined up behind Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg to help 45 Democrats defeat a milder version of the Wherry amendment...
...Madison High School, but in his first ten years at it he netted only pretzel money from his 150 songs. He lived by playing the saxophone in Chinese restaurants and beer parlors. In 1945, after he had peddled and pushed Till the End of Time into a hit (with help from Chopin and Tunesmith Ted Mossman), he decided that he had the formula: "Writing the song is only 10% of it; the rest is purely business...