Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow meet Joseph Stalin. He repeats the Russian view that the Western Allies have no juridical right to be in Berlin, but declares that Russia has no intention of forcing them out. Stalin admits frankly that Russia's blockade was a retaliation against the Western powers' London plan for a Western German regime. Eventually, Stalin agrees to lift the blockade on condition that the Russian mark be Berlin's sole currency. He agrees not to insist on postponement of the West's plans for Western Germany, but wants it recorded as Russia's "insistent wish...
...Paris, the nations listened to the earnest, urgent words of Count Folke Bernadotte. The U.N. General-Assembly considered his proposals for a Palestine settlement which he had completed just before his death. Both George Marshall and Ernie Bevin backed the plan; it seemed certain that the Assembly would adopt it. Both Jews and Arabs objected, but they sounded more moderate than usual...
...cold and windy evening last week, while the men in Paris still considered the Count's plan, a white plane with United Nations markings landed at Stockholm airport. It bore the coffin of Folke Bernadotte. In a hangar filled with dahlias and carnations, in the presence of the Count's 88-year-old father Prince Oscar (brother of Sweden's King Gustaf), a short ceremony took place. Said the old man to the men who had brought his son's body home: "Thank you for what you have done...
Miss Ward considers the Marshall Plan a magnificent and unprecedented gesture of statesmanship and generosity. But she points out that even if it succeeds to the full extent of its blueprint, it will be unable to remedy the basic imbalance (she thinks that by 1951 Western Europe will still buy $13 billion worth more goods than it can sell in the U.S.). The long-range cure, and the long-range bulwark against Communism, must be a supreme European effort toward Western Union...
...long-range Communist plan, laid down in 1920, is to create Communist governments in all the colonial countries. The short-range plan is more recent and more urgent: to undermine Marshall Plan recovery in Europe by fanning the fires of unrest in Southeast Asia...