Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underpinning its energetic diplomacy with the sword, and the Communists were powerless to prevent...
When the ex-Secretary of the Treasury's book was published last week, the German problem was only one of many over shadowing problems. Nothing done or undone in Germany alone could prevent World War III. But the book was notable for two things: 1) it made public for the first time the full, often misreported "Morgenthau Plan" for Germany; 2) it argued strongly for a hard peace against increasing pressure for a soft peace...
...Senate had done exactly what Ohio's hardheaded, conservative Robert Alphonso Taft had demanded for months, usually with small support. It had passed an amendment declaring that for whatever the Federal Government spends (after 1947) there must be new taxes "to prevent any net increase in the federal debt." In short, the Senate had taken a stand for that all but forgotten institution, the balanced budget...
Patton's ideas on how to run Germany were shared by many of his subordinate officers. The ideas: 1) restore normal conditions to prevent anarchy; 2) get German industry back into shape so that the U.S. taxpayer will not have to foot the bill; 3) show the Germans "what grand fellows...
...Romans knew better. The plot had been laid, but had not been hatched because too many knew about it. Clearly, Premier Parri had issued his statement to prevent the rumors of a rightist uprising from becoming the excuse for a leftist outbreak...