Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the usual run of epithets about the "bipartisan war coalition" and the "reactionary, imperialist essence of the Marshall Plan," the resolution declared that, as soon as the war ended, the Communist Party had "boldly proclaimed the need ... for a new people's party." The resolution added modestly: "Because of its correct line, the Party was able to carry on effective mass work and make significant contributions ... to the forging of the new political alignment and people's coalition...
Later, she darted off to address workers in Naples. "They wept and threw their arms around me because I wasn't selling the Marshall Plan or telling them how to vote," she reported on her return. "They acted as though I were the last American democrat . . . We've become the old country when we ought to be at the peak of our youth and beauty...
...Security Council resolution that would recognize a "threat to the peace and breach of the peace" in Palestine, and pave the way for sanctions to enforce a truce. Britain balked. Unless King Abdullah's Arab Legion spilled over into territory marked for Jewish control by the U.N. partition plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce order, with a 36-hour time limit. While U.N. debated, U.S. Consul General Thomas Wasson, member of the U.N. Truce Commission appointed last month, was killed in Jerusalem...
...quarrelsome quadripartite situation to deal with, and MacArthur had the field to himself-but in both cases the U.S. learned early that no boot-on-the-neck type of peace would work. Germany could have become a nation of peasants (as she would have under the Morgenthau plan), but her industry was necessary to the rest of Europe. Japanese industry is needed, first & foremost, to keep Japan alive, for on her meager acres she could not possibly feed herself even if everyone worked...
Since Easter, Finance Minister Douglas Charles Abbott and his technical experts had worked long & hard on the budget. With Prime Minister King's O.K., Abbott laid down the general line: a tough plan, and no major tax reductions...