Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under strict orders to stay out of China's still-limited civil war, the Americans were the targets of fierce Communist complaints that they were practicing "armed intervention." From beautiful Peiping, in the heart of embattled North China, TIME Correspondent William Gray cabled a survey of the U.S. dilemma...
Some would call it intervention ; Braden would call it the only practical form of nonintervention. As he had been saying for a decade, he said in Washington last week:
A Global Granary? The surplus-producing nations wanted to empower F.A.O. to distribute surplus foods where they were most needed and thus support the producer's market prices. Anxious to become self-sufficient, the importing nations were leary of direct F.A.O. intervention, tried to put it in an advisory...
Lest they be suspected of approving the Peróns of Latin America, the critical Senators joined in a unanimous vote to confirm Braden's appointment. But they had made known that freehanded, aggressive "intervention," even for Latin liberties, was not the policy of the U.S. Senate.
Bluer than oppositionist Gomecistas were Brazil's Communists. U.S. Ambassador Adolph Berle's recent intervention had spiked Communist efforts to call for a constituent assembly, then stall elections and keep Vargas in power. Now Vargas, too, had discarded the idea.