Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed a burst of energy last week. The President grappled with the problem of the nation's debilitated military strength. The State Department moved on a new tangent into the mess of the Middle East. In collaboration with Britain and France, U.S. policymakers outsmarted Russia at Trieste. Meanwhile, some private citizens seized upon and wielded a propaganda weapon which might be as sharply effective as anything so far contrived in official quarters...
...before the week was out, the U.S. people were beginning to be heard. They had half expected that Harry Truman was going to ask for immediate mobilization. They were neither shocked nor surprised at his identification of Communist Russia as the enemy of their nation. His speech merely confirmed their views, although they still did not fully understand the crisis, which they thought should have been spelled out with more facts...
...selective service; for one thing, they did not understand how the two operations would function, how they would be separated, or whether both were necessary. But they were convinced that hundreds of thousands of Americans had to put on uniforms. They were ready to believe George Marshall: that the nation had to regain "a reasonable military posture...
...parley will continue through tomorrow, with each of the nation's major colleges representing the opinion of one member of the U. N. The purpose of the gathering is to promote understanding of the internal functions of world government and its aims by affording students an opportunity to work within its structure...
Also, according to the United Nations Council of Harvard, the three day gathering on the Chicago campus may be instrumental in the formation of a permanent nation-wide forum of students to study international issues in close contact with men cognizant of these issues through their work...