Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point, Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer had surveyed the scene in late IQJ? and reported to President Truman: the dangers to the U.S. in China were "as portentous as those leading to World War II." His recommendation: a sweeping fiveyear aid program, dependent on drastic domestic reforms in China. His prophetic warning: "A 'wait-and-see' policy would lead to ... disturbance verging on chaos, at the end of which the Chinese Communists would emerge as the dominant group." The U.S. did more than ignore Wedemeyer's recommendations. It suppressed release of his report until last week...
...governments: corruption and disunity, incompetence and indecision. Yet in a world racked by the evil and destruction of first fascist, then Communist aggression, the American job was to work with the world it found and know what world it wanted. In China, it tried and it failed. At no point in the long chronicle of its failure had it displayed a modest fraction of the stamina and decisiveness which had checked Communism in Europe. For its Asia policy, it had filed a petition in bankruptcy, seemed desperately to be seeking solvency in platitudes and recriminations...
...Tuck. This time it was the Dewey leaders who were trying to fight somebody with nobody: Committeeman Axel J. Beck of Elk Point...
...hour and 50 minutes the brass consulted in Fontainebleau's "secret room." Main point of the discussions was what to do with the existing Western Union military organization (TIME, Aug. 1): scrap it for a new overall Atlantic Treaty setup, expand it to include all Atlantic Treaty countries, or make it one of four regional defense groups under an Atlantic Defense Committee? Presumably the Americans also heard arguments on the long-standing dispute between the British and French on whether or not the European continent could be defended against possible Russian attack...
...Council embarked on its task this week (probable agenda items: a European passport, a declaration of human rights), France's Georges Bidault made a significant point: "In other times this event would have been received as revolutionary. It is a sign of the new times that it appears so natural to public opinion today that no one is astonished...