Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, for two domestic jobs, the President had chosen two old friends, both dull and uninspiring appointments. For two positions of international import, he had picked two Republicans-which should remove forever any small taint of isolationism that might still dog the G.O.P...
...last fortnight he opened the first session. This week he had planned to leave by air for the U.S., then go to Switzerland to finish a law course at the University of Lausanne. His family and the strong, subtle men who run Siam had opposed this trip, promising to import tutors if he wanted more study. But Ananda had persisted...
...when he got to Spain, his first lesson began to sink in: Fascism was designed for export, and anybody who did not want to import it must fight it. Somewhere between Valencia, blitzed Barcelona and Madrid, his ivory tower crumbled, and Matthews stepped from its rubble to do the best reporting of his career. Because it was also optimistic reporting, he wound up feeling as sick at heart as the Spanish Republicans...
...rejected the Communist-sponsored Constitution, special emissary Leon Blum, who had been cajoling U.S. officials for eight weeks, found his path easier. Washington woke up to the fact that, France might be saved for the world the U.S. hoped to build. At week's end the Export-Import Bank was on the point of giving France new.credits of about $650,000,000. Washington was well aware that France will elect a new Assembly June 2. Said a U.S. Treasury official: "We'll see if loans have a favorable effect on politics...
...Simple Life. Although Jimmy Byrnes told France that she could have an Export-Import Bank loan, the Senate had debated for three weeks the British loan which the Administration considered the keystone of its credit program. Did the Senate's mood (sometimes willful and irresponsible) mirror the nation's mood? By their tactics Senators also jeopardized the draft, which is a second keystone of U.S. participation in world affairs...