Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stikker talked to Secretary Acheson for two hours, and was pressed to come to terms with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...
Harry Truman missed no chance to let the boys know that bygones were bygones. Displaying some herniated Latin at a dinner for Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Truman mentioned the old Roman cry: "Delenda est Carthago!" (Carthage must be destroyed). Some Senators had cried "Delenda est Trumano!"-said the President, but "I am happy to say that I have no ill feeling towards those gentlemen who would like to have delenda...
...United Nations organization . . . has so far been rent and distracted by the antagonism of Soviet Russia and by the fundamental schism which has opened between communism and the rest of mankind. But we must not despair. We must persevere, and if the gulf continues to widen, we must make sure that the cause of freedom is defended by all the resources of combined forethought and superior science. Here lies the best hope of averting a third world struggle...
...Only Fear. "The question is asked, 'Are we winning the cold war?' Well, this cannot be decided by looking at Europe alone. We must also look to Asia. The worst disaster since our victory has been the collapse of China ... On the other hand, the position in Europe has so far successfully been maintained. [But] fear and its shadows [still] brood over Western Europe today . . . You have much responsibility there, where much faith is placed in you ... It is certain that Europe would have been communized like Czechoslovakia, and London under bombardment some time...
...style colonial imperialism is dead as an instrument of development. Capitalism must shoulder what President Harry Truman called a "bold new program." Specific examples of what capitalist enterprise can do were given by Nelson Rockefeller, president of the International Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described...