Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economizers were adamant. Barked John Taber: "The architects of this world-wide relief program have no definite plan." Stubbornly ignoring the months of conferences and hearings, the volumes of reports, and the testimony of such authorities as ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman and Under Secretary of State Bob Lovett, he protested that evidence in favor of the program was just "the result of a series of after-dinner conversations in which Administration economists let their imaginations run wild...
Vacationing in Sun Valley, Secretary of State George Marshall stated grimly: "The reduction proposed would, I consider, alter the European program from one of reconstruction to one of mere relief...
When Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats won the elections last April, the West sighed with relief and turned to other concerns. Indifference was premature. Last week the Communists were renewing their campaign of sabotage...
...citizens are spending $10,000,000 a month for gift parcels to Germany. Mil itary Government officials called it "the most extensive spontaneous relief effort in history...
...brought forth events sufficient to crowd aside the worries of tomorrow. To the Jews of Palestine this day brought a state of their own, the first in 1,878 years. To the British it brought the loss of a 10,460-square-mile base in the Mediterranean-and relief from a burden they had snatched up with imperial optimism 31 years ago. To the Arabs, it brought a tautening of determination as well as a more sober assessing of their chances for victory...