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More important, it was a policy which could not succeed without a united government behind it. By his truculence, by using the stick instead of the carrot, Harry Truman had started a wrangle, not a debate. He had put a great national policy in peril of being crippled by bickering...
...anyone's guess, but X might well be some time in 1952, Y some time in 1954. X, therefore, was the moment of peril. But by the terms of their own calendar, the military men could not hope to be ready before...
Speaking with a resoluteness and a crisp delivery he had seldom shown before, Harry Truman laid down the course for meeting the Soviet peril "wisely . . . bravely . . . honorably," as he saw it: economic assistance "where it can be effective," military assistance "to countries which want to defend themselves," full support of U.S. obligations under the Atlantic Treaty. Said the President: "Strategically, economically and morally, the defense of Europe is part of our own defense...
...greatest financial peril confronting higher education ... today is the prospect of further inflation," the commission said. "Colleges and universities cannot simply increase their prices; they do not operate in any such...
...must always be on hand when people are in peril," the Golux explained...