Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a statement opposing indiscriminate trade with Communist countries, especially China. I have always held, and so stated many times in print, that we must use trade with Communist countries as a political weapon in the public interest and not as an instrument for private gain...
...course, did not invent intervention-it has been an instrument of nations ever since there have been any. The U.S. has probably used that instrument with greater restraint, and less for the purpose of territorial aggrandizement, than any other major power in human history. Yet upon no fewer than 148 occasions-the latest being in the Dominican Republic-the U.S. has "intervened" in the sense of landing armed troops on foreign shores in situations short of declared...
...onstage as a set of initials with some ill-defined, but impressive-sounding role in inter-American affairs. In reality, it does not command the power that is expected of it. But as an organ of consultation and a forum of opinion, it is far and away the handiest instrument the U.S. has for dealing with hemisphere problems...
...puppet Presidents. In the words of the U.S. Navy's official order, it was "military occupation . . . military government . . . military law." The occupation lasted eight years, and along with their public works the marines created a national police to keep peace after their departure. The police became the instrument for one more dictator: Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, an ambitious colonel who rigged elections in 1930 and ruled the country for 31 deadening years...
...solemn, dramatic style of news delivery has gone out of fashion in TV today. The newscasters of strive for a lighter touch in the manner of Huntley and Brinkley. But Murrow perfectly suited his anxious era. As he himself once explained: "The timing was right and the instrument powerful...