Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond a certain point, the Southerner will not or cannot give a reasonable answer to the Negro problem. It is not, he feels, a reasonable problem. And it was not a problem that he brought on himself. It is his business to live with it, but it is no more capable of overnight solution than any other vexation he inherited. This sense of irrational frustration reduces most Southerners to the flat statements of defiance with which they commonly respond when a Northerner-especially a Northern "liberal"-attacks them on the subject...
Grandpa Thurmond's son John saw the South meet violence with violence. John studied law and hitched his star to "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman,* South Carolina's demagogic Governor and Senator. Ben Tillman had a short answer for the Negro problem. He told the U.S. Senate: "We shot them. We are not ashamed of it ... We will not submit to Negro domination under any conditions that you may prescribe...
This week U.N. finally reached the Berlin problem. Again Russia's position was based upon unlimited national sovereignty. In trying to act on Berlin, said the Russians, U.N. was interfering with the sovereignty of the big powers. In a formal note, Moscow declared that a lot of "false noise was raised" by the Western powers, proposed that the Berlin issue be returned to the Big Four. The West rejected the note and the Security Council started its debate. Cried Vishinsky: "Gentlemen, you have come to the wrong address ... I object to the inclusion of this item on the agenda...
...that England is an island. I can't do anything about that, neither can she. And I say to you that Europe is not an island but a continent . . . The natural center of a defense plan is France. But for the present, France is hardly present. The problem of European defense will have to be reconsidered when France has a real government...
Will the U.S. Help? The real problem of Western Europe's defense centered in Washington. Very quietly, Washington has started work on a kind of military Marshall Plan; the U.S. Army has drafted a preliminary list of what the Western European alliance will need in the way of military supplies (and what it can produce itself). Request for Lend-Lease legislation would be submitted early next year to Congress and the nation...