Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Was this armed intervention, as many a critic of Chiang, as the Chinese Communists and many a U.S. leftist would surely label it? The policymakers' answer on this point is a strong no; the U.S. does not intend to intervene in China's internal affairs. But the U.S...
Intervention. That was the situation this week when President Truman suddenly moved into the picture. With no advance notice, he sent a message to Congress proposing a plan to settle future strikes. He said he would apply it immediately-without the benefit of any law from Congress-to the General...
Plan Green also provided for an "incident" to provoke German intervention. One idea: to kill Germany's minister to Prague and blame it on the Czechs. The timely intervention of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier at Munich saved Minister Dr. Ernst Eisenlohr's life.
In Washington, Secretary Byrnes affirmed the Braden doctrine that the hemispheric principle of non-intervention should not shield violators of the elementary rights of man. He also accepted Uruguayan Foreign Minister Alberto Rodriguez Larreta's ringing proposal that the American republics take joint action against oppressive regimes in their...
Some suspected that the Uruguayan note had originated in Spruille Braden's office. They were wrong. But the U.S. State Department was going all out to line up the lesser republics behind a forthright policy of intervention when & where intervention seemed necessary.