Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, in George Marshall's opinion, peace depends on the success of U.S. efforts to help Europe help itself...
Conditions: The Paris conferees had already agreed to take steps toward closer cooperation and greater self-help (TIME, Oct. 6). Now each participant would also be bound by bilateral treaties with the U.S. to boost production, stabilize finances, cut trade barriers, provide the U.S. with regular progress reports...
There was a dangerous oversimplification in that theory. If carried to extremes, it would bind the U.S. to help any unsavory opportunist professing antiCommunism. But Wedemeyer saw no such danger in Chiang's case: "I personally think he is a fine character. He is the logical leader of China today. I went there prepared not to like him, from things I had heard. He needs our help and he should...
...Labor Party had already censured the British Communists' most eloquent spokesman, who is not a Communist-burly, buck-toothed Konni ("Zilly") Zilliacus, intellectual Laborite M.P. who wants Britain to help Communist Russia set up control of Europe against U.S. "imperialists." Zilly and twelve other Labor M.P.s who follow the Russian line had recently sent a friendly message to the Russian-sponsored "People's Congress" in Berlin. The Parliamentary Labor Party passed a resolution that "This meeting . .. dissociates itself from the message . . . [which] in no way reflects [our] attitude or views...
Last week the U.S. Government handed out one of the biggest single grants it has ever made for cancer research. To help rebuild Dr. Clarence Cook Little's fire-destroyed Jackson Memorial Cancer Laboratory in Bar Harbor (TIME, Nov. 3), the Government's National Cancer Institute gave Dr. Little $250,000-on condition that its gift is matched by private contributions...