Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question most frequently asked was: Why by-pass U.N.? Did the Truman Doctrine, which promised independent U.S. action to "help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity" mean that U.N. was dead, or at the best moribund...
Said Secretary Acheson: "This is a dangerous life and a dangerous world. I would choose a vigorous attempt to maintain the independence of Greece rather than let it go by default. ... If we do not accede to the [Greek and Turkish] requests ... for aid, there will be a strong conviction that a great deal of our professions are merely words...
...week's end, cheerful Ecuadorians were saying, with the Shell workers' union's General Secretary Guillermo Alarcon: "We must be optimistic that future drillings will produce exploitable oil and the company will be able to maintain at least the present number of workers."* Still more cheerful were those who said: "Shell has been withdrawing from Ecuador since it came here ten years...
...objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion. . . . We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose on them totalitarian regimes. . . . Great responsibilities have been placed upon...
...another Lend-Lease. It was far more than that. It was a projection of the advice which George Marshall gave the nation at the end of World War II. He spoke then as Chief of Staff, and in military terms: "The only effective defense a nation can now maintain is the power of attack." Other military leaders paraphrased it: "U.S. policy is now to wage the peace around the world...