Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implied that the U.S. was largely deferring to the attitude of Western Europe. "The fact of the matter was," he declared, "that a government was established in Spain which was patterned on the regimes in Italy and in Germany and was, and is, a Fascist government and dictatorship . . ." Point by point, he ticked off the Western democracies' indictment of the Franco regime. It denied the writ of habeas corpus, the right of trial by jury, the right of religious liberty, the right of free association...
...news whenever he cracks a smile, left Lake Success for Moscow and remarked: "We have to work for peace, both the Americans and the Russians. They can work together if they want to." Said Moscow's New Times: "The Council of Foreign Ministers could actually become a turning point in the course of postwar settlement...
...Western powers, on their way to the pink palace, were in top fighting form. They could point to a united Western Europe whose people, American observers believed, were now better off than at any time since 1914 (excepting a few short years of peak prosperity). That was perhaps the West's biggest asset. Wrote London's clear-eyed Economist: "If the victory at Berlin proves anything, it is that the way to deal with the Russians is to make stiff terms and to stick to them inflexibly . . . Firmness is now justified up to the hilt...
...born (1892) in Coytesville, N J., of Dutch stock. When he was a baby, his family moved to Florida, where his father was a pioneer railroad promoter and financier. He had a healthy, uneventful outdoor childhood, played football as a halfback at West Point (classmates remember him particularly as being "good on the defensive"), was graduated 92nd out of 168 in the star-studded class of 1915, whose roster included names like Ike Eisenhower (class standing: 61) and Omar Bradley (44). In World War I, he went to France as an infantry major. Between wars, he taught infantry tactics...