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Democrat Connally lost no time in letting it be known that he was not fooled by mutual security semantics, particularly by the substitution of "defense support" for "economic aid." It was all a "device," he cried, to prolong ECA aid, which was supposed to end in 1952. Harriman quietly insisted: "It is not a device, but a method of building up our military security...
Stalin, however, could easily prolong the talks into November, and then renew the fighting in time to insure the election of his choice. The only way Stalin's game can be thwarted, of course, is if he gets no choice, and if the only foreign policy question bandied by November's candates is not "What should our policy be?" but "Who can run our present policy better...
Sober Choice. But the King and his doctors faced a sober question which only George VI himself could answer. Should he try to prolong his life to the utmost by taking scrupulous care never to tax his heart, and become a perpetual invalid? Or should he live, as much as possible, the life of a normal man of 56? In the background, too, there was the inevitable question of a reappearance of cancer...
...first months after V-E Day, the Western allies in Germany, swallowing hard, bundled thousands of unwilling and sometimes struggling refugees from Communist domination into trains, and sent them back to death or slavery in Communist hands. The allies did this wicked thing to prolong the "honeymoon" with Soviet Russia. When Russia itself ended the honeymoon, the practice of involuntary repatriation stopped-to the vast relief of all men of good will...
...repatriation was designed to work both ways-i.e., any U.N. prisoners who chose to stay in Communist territory would be free to do so. This did not interest the Red negotiators, and they remained obdurate. The U.N. delegates knew that, in resisting the Red demands, they might prolong the captivity and perhaps endanger the lives of the 11,000-plus U.N. prisoners (3,200 of them Americans) whose names had turned up on the Communist P.W. lists...