Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against Aggression. The resolution, drafted with the full collaboration of the State Department, approved U.S. "association" with regional alliances for mutual defense under the U.N. Under it, the President would get tacit and prior approval to negotiate arrangements for mutual defense with Europe's Western Union. The Marshall Plan had offered the U.S.'s immense resources to assure Western Europe's economic security against Communist disruption. The Vandenberg resolution was its military corollary...
Last winter they were startled more than ever. The moment that his old mentor, Senator Martin, began sniping at the flanks of ERP, Duff rose up before a Temple University audience to throw his full weight behind the Marshall Plan. He jarred the old guard again by warning a P.M.A. dinner that the way to start fighting inflation was by cutting back prices. When he let it be known that he was getting ready to swing his convention support behind a candidate of his own choosing, the regulars reached for their knives...
...Worse Than Versailles." The Reds' operative word was the magic "unity." Last week the German "People's Council" (a Communist front) trumpeted that the London plan was "far worse than the Treaty of Versailles." The Reds offered an eight-point counterproposal. The gist: Germany must be one nation, indivisible; an all-German provisional government must be formed immediately; Bizonia and all plans for a Western state must be liquidated; Germany must have a voice in future peace negotiations...
That was precisely the kind of plan that most Germans-anti-Communists or not -passionately wanted to hear. What the West needed last week, among other things, was a good pressagent who could point out to the Germans the Communists' astonishing triple-dealing...
...Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was grave but pleased. In Cairo he announced to assembled newsmen that both Jews and Arabs had accepted his plan for a four-week truce in Palestine. At one point Bernadotte humbly said: "If we hadn't got help from God Almighty . . ." He looked up and saw some cynical smiles among his listeners. Bernadotte screwed his monocle more firmly into his right eye, continued: "Without His help, we wouldn't be sitting here...