Word: keyes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rhine or Pyrenees? The argument in favor of making friends with Franco was largely military. In case of a war with Russia, top U.S. strategists have long argued, Spanish bases would be important. Spain is the key to the Mediterranean...
...they had been living in a fool's paradise. Last winter when they put down the Communist strikes they showed that they did not want the Communists in power; but they were not willing to destroy what they were willing to resist. They even left Communists in many key positions. Last week, when France signed with other Western Europe nations a military pact whose sole purpose was protection against Communism, France still had a Communist, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, at the head of her atomic research. This dreamy escapism could not go on forever...
...Key Largo. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...fairly close. Both support full appropriations for the Marshall Plan, and both favor putting teeth in the United Nations. Fitzgerald makes two specific proposals for the U.N. One would require only a four-out-of-five vote of the Security Council's permanent members in order to settle key questions. Second, Fitzgerald wants the U.N. to get itself a strong military force to back up decisions. As Fitzgerald's campaign manager, John I. Fitzgerald Jr., puts it, "My father believes you can keep world peace the same way the police keep the peace in Boston--by force...
...Key Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...