Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American correspondents had their own final drill with him. Leaning comfortably against the upholstery of his private railroad car, General Clay looked back on his four grinding, controversial years as a 20th Century proconsul. A unified Germany, he thought, is now inevitable, but there must be another five to 20 years of gradually tapering Allied occupation. As for the Russians, he warned that an East-West agreement on Berlin should not be confused with "a permanent solution to the struggle between communism and democracy." Said Clay: "I don't think that implies war. War would never solve...
Soldier Bradley cut straight to the heart of the whole arms issue. Said he: "Plans for the common defense of the existing free world must provide for the security of Western Europe without abandoning these countries to the terrors of another enemy occupation. Only upon that premise can nations closest to the frontiers be expected to stake their fortunes with ours in the common defense...
...General Electric at Lynn, Mass., manufacturers of jet engines. They were taught that when another "heavy depression" hit the U.S., the time would have arrived to destroy its Government; that if the U.S. adopted an "imperialist" policy, i.e., one opposed to the policy of the Soviet Union, the party must wage "civil...
Anxiety Is Unbecoming. The West had decided it must stand resolutely at Paris, give in to none of Russia's baited proposals. That would leave Russia an excellent chance to make the West look like the enemy of German unity. But the Russians had peddled the same propaganda line before, without notable success...
Frustrated Exports. Have Britain's modern "mercantile adventurers" the stuff to sweep the dollar main? Gone were the days when Britain faced no real competition on world markets. As one energetic Briton said last week: "We must get out of our carpet slippers and don swashbucklers' boots." But the British were not doing much swashbuckling. As the sellers' market was fading, U.S. sales resistance mounted. British prices were too high for the U.S. market; Austin Motor bravely slashed the prices of its cars from $75 to $1,000, cutting its profits to ribbons. Other British automakers groaned...