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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Doctrine had been addressed primarily to the Russians, who understood it perfectly. It meant "Stop Shoving," and the shoving at least became a bit gentler in Greece, Turkey, France, Italy. But Europe, hungry and jittery, was inclined to think the U.S. was "getting tough." Even that notably un-jittery institution, the Vatican, felt a necessity to disassociate itself (TIME, June 23) from the strong U.S. line...
Economic conferences would start immediately. Moscow, after some-confusion, decided to pull up for a closer look. The Russians complained that they did not know what the Marshall plan meant-or what Bevin and Bidault had been up to-but they agreed to a British-French-Russian exploratory conference in Paris, this week...
Uncompromising Verdict. It took a second reading, and some reflection, to discourage optimists. Said one foreign diplomat, after lunch: "I am stupid. I have done it again & again. I thought this morning for a while that the Russians really meant business." Square, old-fashioned Warren Austin, senior U.S. delegate who likes to look for the bright side, at first thought Gromyko's words meant "a very promising advance." But It turned out that he had misunderstood at least one ambiguous passage...
...beaverboard office in the basement of a Government building in La Boca, five dark-skinned men sat back and mopped their brows with satisfaction. They were the officers of Local 713, United Public Workers of America (C.I.O.), and they had just signed up their 15,897th dues payer. This meant that most of the men now working on the Panama Canal belong to a union dominated by Communists...
...year ago that he would have no organized cliques in his school, and the girls promised to disband. When he found out that three societies were still going, Principal Marks docked each of the 36 offenders ten study credits-to be made up in summer school. For seniors, that meant no graduation...