Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In all the tables of statistics in Washington, crowded with numbers so immense that no one could really grasp them, one figure was simple enough to be seen, smelled and tasted: each day the U.S. was spending $15 million more than it was taking in.
It could cut spending, and get the unbalanced budget back into balance. This was tempting, but a cut in the really fleshy parts of the U.S. budget-the multibillion-dollar defense and foreign spending programs-might ultimately cost more than it saved.
The Cairo Conference (1943) promised Formosa to China; Chinese Communists could argue that Formosa, and its 6,400,000 people, belong to China. Instead of reassuring Asiatics, the sending of U.S. troops might provoke more enmity than friendliness for Western democracy; Asiatics might look upon it as a demonstration of...
In all, more than 100 Congressmen and some 30 Senators went abroad, trailed by almost double that many clerks, aides, wives & children. One group of four went on going right around the world. While most went to Europe, there were also expeditions to the Far East, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico...
Not all joined Thomas in educating the foreign masses in the peculiarities of the American public servant-a good many worked diligently at learning something themselves, thus went practically unnoticed, and in a sense, wasted their personalities during their travels. But the bolder and more extraverted made up for them...