Word: level
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White House, President Truman conferred urgently with Secretary of State George Marshall and Defense Secretary James Forrestal. General Clay arrived and plunged into a round of top-level conferences at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill, with the National Security Council at the White House...
...Ambassadors Lew Douglas and Walter Bedell Smith in Berlin, Clay hinted this week that the U.S. was willing to reopen four-power talks on a settlement for all Germany. It was a concession; the U.S. had demanded that talks be confined to Berlin, and conducted on the Berlin level...
...both sides entered what was bound to become a new phase of East-West relations in Europe, the crisis crystallized the strengths and weaknesses of both. The Yalta-Potsdam comedy was played out. With or without another top-level conference between Russia and the Western powers, the old agreements, long since dishonored by the Communists, would be replaced by a more realistic pattern. What that pattern would be depended on how much strength, cooperation and purpose the Western nations could generate in the next few months...
Jeffers' political views are, in fact, stark and skinny as a buzzard's craw. His new lyrics say that the U.S. was embroiled in World War II by "liars," that the U.S. dead in the war were "gypped," that the effect of U.S. entry was to "[level] the powers of Europe" and make balance, or peace, impossible; that, as a result, a third World War is coming, and that in it, or in the next, the U.S. will suffer "the brutal horror of defeat...
...made astute military men realize that airborne troops, supplied by air, would be a crucial factor if World War III arrived. Few would have believed, a month ago, that 2½ million people could be fed by air. If the U.S. and Britain, now at a low peacetime level, could turn that trick with a scratch force, what could they do if mobilized for war? The answer perceptibly shortened the shadow of the Red Army...