Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶Heard that famed, old (87) white-whiskered George Bernard Shaw had described U.S. "intervention" in "the powerless little cabbage garden called Eire" as "a really stupid mistake." Sniped Playwright Shaw: "Can it be that Mr. Roosevelt is overworked and is catching too many colds?"
When Quint Guardian J. A. Valin, a judge who is now 86, recently resigned, the Province re-examined the guardianship setup. Its decision: unnecessary "intervention in [the Dionnes'] affairs should not persist." A contributory factor: public opinion has turned more & more toward Oliva Dionne ever since the late Dr...
London's bright Economist put the nub of British alarm, if not its central point: "If the Americans adopt a policy of intervention after the war, its value . . . will depend on its manners and methods. . . . If their intervention is to be unilateral, spasmodic and uninformed, the final result will...
Drastic Neighbor. This policy was successful during the period of U.S. "big-stick" intervention in Latin American affairs. But the Good Neighbor Policy was a setback. Argentinians watched "one republic after another being won over to Washington by the simple device of a Pan American policy founded on sincerity. . . . It...
3) The three interested Middle Eastern oil companies dislike Government intervention but are willing to chance it in the form of a pipeline because they need continued and active U.S. Government support of their Arabian ventures.