Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understands and seriously sympathizes with the British hypersensitivity in the face of the westward migration of power. He recognizes that one of his main tasks is to help preserve British dignity and authority to the limits set by the new realities of world power. He knows that the recovery of Germany and the stability of France are both important, but that if the British position continues to deteriorate, stability in Europe and the world as a whole seems impossible...
Then they went on, leaving the future U.N. in a peace disturbed only by an unintentionally symbolic sign which read: "Serge, this is the equipment. Lancaster will help, he's the expert." There it all was: international effort, the expert, the equipment-everything, indeed, but the common purpose...
...days the Assembly had acted on 63 agenda items; Russia and the West had not reached agreement on a single issue that would help make the peace. Russia announced that she would boycott the "Little Assembly" (created to function between regular assemblies), the commission established to supervise the Korean elections, the establishment of a permanent Balkan Commission. Most of the 70 days' work was a propaganda brouhaha...
...upon Chinese reforms before further aid. U.S. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer had made that condition painfully clear to all Chinese last summer, though at first most of Nationalist China had read a far different significance into the Wedemeyer visit. They thought it implied, at last, U.S. readiness to help. Their morale soared. Their dollar had steadied at about...
This, multiplied 1,000 times, was China's lot last week, from which neither military nor economic recovery-much less a stable democracy-was possible without U.S. help...