Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The State Department's brazen assertion of its own utter guiltlessness made less than no sense, notably in view of the fact that it sank $2 billion into a situation it had long regarded as hopeless. From Congress, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge snapped: "Apparently the Administration would...
The Suppressed Report. Had Nationalist China been a hopeless cause? If so, U.S. policy apparently made a mad marriage with despair and defeat many years ago, and wasted billions on the dowry. But the State Department's own record raised doubt that this was always so. After V-J...
For U.S. policymakers, the end came as ignominiously as fof China's Generalissimo. Wearily, Ambassador Stuart cabled Washington: "I have more than ever a sense of frustration ... I feel impotent to accomplish anything." Desperately he cabled for specific instructions to meet the shattering of Chinese resistance. In a tantrum...
Innocent Abroad. None of this seemed like proper preparation for life among the great, but when Harry Truman went to the White House, John Maragon hopped right in behind him. He was, it developed, a particular friend of the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. According to...
Eleanor Roosevelt found that "a clarifying and fair statement." In an accompanying statement of her own, which the Cardinal's office in Manhattan also released, she said she found it reassuring to be told that the Cardinal was asking only for "auxiliary services," a position he had not made...