Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available" to the world's "underdeveloped areas." It would make U.S. technical skills available, and would assist local capital with U.S. investments. It was not "the old imperialism-exploitation for foreign profit. It must be a world-wide effort for the achievement of peace, plenty and freedom...
...tough little ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and by vague old Leon Blum. Horse-faced Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, headed the British delegation. Dalton offered a concession: Britain would agree to a European "conference" to meet publicly (once a year for three weeks), but the delegates must still be bound by the instructions of their governments. Up from his fragile chair popped Paul Reynaud. "You would find no one willing to sit in a pseudo-parliament of this nature," he cried. "It is paradoxical that the mother of parliaments should propose the formation of such an authoritarian...
...Britain's hesitations. They realize that it is asking a lot of Britain to tie her recovering economy to France's, and to rate the defense of Strasbourg as important as the defense of Dover. Still, they believe that, in order to achieve European union, the British must take military and economic risks, i.e., gamble on the hope that the French will somehow pull through...
Just before the election, one of Yoshida's opponents, Communist Sanzo Nozaka, had said: "Compared to the other Japanese parties we are now merely the dash of wasabi (horseradish) which flavors the sashimi (raw fish). We must become the sashimi, too." In the election, Communist seats rose from four to 35, their popular vote from 3.6% in 1947 to 10.5%. The Communists were not yet the whole sashimi] the voters would have four years to decide whether they liked quite so hot a seasoning...
Even if it means seriously impairing Dutch economic recovery in Europe by cutting off aid under E.R.P., we must set the Indonesians on their own feet, under a government of their own choice, the government professor added...