Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never been as black as he had been painted, anyhow. "How can we do better than to make an ally of a country which has carried the war against communism for the past quarter of a century?" he asked. Besides, suggested McCarran, getting down to business, the U.S. might be able to sell Spain some surplus cotton...
...ship reached Communist-dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel, and kick the Gdynia America Line out of New York if the captain didn't listen to reason...
...school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift. The airlift planes still droned on, piling up supplies for any other rainy days that might lie ahead. Berlin's feeling about the end of the 327-day Russian blockade was shown most clearly as the first train chugged out of the city, bound for the Western zones. TIME Correspondent David Richardson, who was aboard, cabled...
Last week, the guerrillas' 105th brigade attacked government positions near Florina. It might be a diversionary attack to harass Greek army groups successfully mopping up Red pockets in central Greece, or it might be the beginning of a major spring offensive by the Communists. At any rate, the Greek army, which has heeded Soldier Van Fleet's advice, was ready. The attackers at Fiorina were driven back, with government troops in hot pursuit...
...Russia for reparations. For two years, the Deputies of the Big Four Foreign Ministers have been deadlocked on the question of precisely what constitutes German assets; the Russians, for example, include in their definition properties which the Nazis seized from the Austrians after the Anschluss. The Big Four might interminably haggle over half a billion dollars' worth of factories, oilfields and Danube River shipping, but all the competent authorities were agreed on one fact: Herr Kaiser's three rings seemed to be German assets, all right. Frau Feix was informed that she must not sell them without written...