Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novice at Government assignments. He was on the Harriman Committee which recently measured how much European aid the U.S. could afford. This week he returned from a State Department economic mission to the Far East. He was mentioned as a possible administrator of the Marshall Plan almost as soon as Congress began discussing the program. His chief sponsor was George Marshall; he also had the approval of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. In his testimony before Vandenberg's Foreign Relations Committee, Hoffman outlined his conception of the nation's task in Europe: "If production can be increased by one-third...
Recently a Greek correspondent asked Dwight Griswold, head of the AMAG (American Mission for Aid to Greece), what should be done if an international Communist brigade moved into Greece...
...vigor. In two years they had multiplied tenfold. They had raided and ravaged, living a hard mountain life unsolaced by Athenian cafés. A motley collection of uprooted folk, they had no status quo to preserve, no hopes to lose. Consequently they fought as desperate men. Their mission was akin to that of Communists everywhere: to uproot their countrymen, to spread despair, to kill hope, to smother enterprise, to prevent the sowing of crops, until even the tyranny of Communism would seem by comparison a haven...
These somber omens overhung the Moscow talks on Finland's future. Last week the Kremlin sent a special plane to fetch ailing Finnish Premier Mauno Pekkala, to join the Finnish mission negotiating a "friendship" pact. Finns feared the worst...
Christianity's mission is "not to fear the social movement in the world, not to struggle purposelessly against it, but to spiritualize it and to try to cure it from the poison that has been mixed with it, the poison of hate...