Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue of TIME I feel that you overshot a multitude of TIME-readers who I believe are the real readers of your worthy magazine. As one who can boast of reading each copy from kiver to kiver, I think I am in a position to question your idea of TiME-readers as you portrayed 'em. "To begin, I couldn't afford a subscription to TIME. Liv ing on an income which has shrunk to infinitesimal value since this inflation hit the dollar (Mr. B is an ex-Ma rine Gunnery Sergeant on retirement pay), we have...
...fact, he had. He had been turning over an idea in his mind ever since last summer. At that time Air Secretary Stuart Symington had suggested that the way to handle the Russian crisis was to send Dwight Eisenhower over to talk with Stalin. That suggestion was dropped, but Clifford remembered it. He also remembered how the President had broken a deadlock over voting procedure in U.N. by sending Harry Hopkins to Moscow. From a political point of view, Eisenhower was probably not a very good choice for such a job now. But why not send Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...President would have nothing to lose. If Fred Vinson, in man-to-nTan fashion, could get some reassuringly peaceful word out of Stalin, the whole world would cheer. It might even be the miracle needed to keep Harry Truman in the White House. Jubilantly Mr. Truman approved of the idea...
Unexpected Reaction. But Secretary of State Marshall had to be told. He was in Paris trying to negotiate with the Russians at the U.N. Mr. Truman sent him a letter by diplomatic pouch and told him of the great idea...
...Secretary Marshall's idea of basing our European defense line in the Pyrenees has been opposed by French national interests. Since the idea first took shape in Paris the French have been understandably miffed at the thought of their country becoming "expendable." A military guarantee to France might erase this objection, and then the way would be clear for the State Department to accept Franco's fascism and his strategic nation...