Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firm Resolve. In the year 1948-a fitful year in a nervous century-historians could record that a mass of U.S. intentions, promises and pledges had hardened into resolve and action. In 1948, the world's greatest nation of free men finally resolved to meet Communism's deadly challenge with every weapon of peace that it possessed; and if the struggle against Communism required war, the U.S. would fight...
...Dissent. Grimly and regretfully, the country shouldered the burden of a record peacetime rearmament. In little issues and big, the signs of the people's decision were clearly written. Congress authorized a peacetime draft and stamped its approval on a massive Air Force, Army and Navy-without a whisper of partisan dispute in an election year...
...tung, leader of China's Communist Party, and Chu Teh, commander of China's Communist armies-were winning a victory for which they could thank the stupidities of their opponents as much as their own skill. History, which would be little concerned with the "whys," might still record the loss of China-if it was to be a loss-as 1948's major event and major catastrophe. Journalism could certainly record Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh as Communism's Men of the Year...
Proof to Come. Harry Truman had still to prove himself to the nation's voters. He had run on a program, not a record. Some 680,000 who went to the polls had not cast a ballot for any presidential candidate. Truman had polled less than a majority, and his winning margin was the smallest since 1916. Many a voter had voted for him simply as a protest...
...open record, Duggan's career in the State Department was that of a hardworking, conscientious public servant. He had been Under Secretary Welles's lieutenant in plugging for the Good Neighbor policy in Latin America...