Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...List. With these conditions laid down, what, specifically, did Western Europe want from, the U.S.? The answer was a total of $20.4 billion* in food and materials in the next four years. From the rest of the Americas: $14.8 billion. This was Western Europe's "shopping list" (the report called it an "analysis of maladjustments") of things it wanted from...
From a Union of Beggars? Washington studied the report seriously but without enthusiasm. Top level policymakers appreciated the sweat and good intentions which had gone into it, but in many respects they considered it discouragingly unsatisfactory...
...some respects, it was technically imperfect. A State Department official criticized the special report on steel with the comment: "[It is] so full of holes that the old WPB's requirements committee would have rejected it in a few minutes...
...fortnight ago, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer returned from his mission to China as factfinder for the U.S. (TIME, Sept. 29). To the State Department he submitted a report of China's political, military and economic situation. On this report, presumably, would be based one of the most important lines of U.S. foreign policy-what to do about China...
Lieut General Wedemeyer has always been antiCommunist. He was anti-Communist during his earlier mission to China as Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Nov. 6, 1944 et seq.). His report on the Chinese situation could not be anything but antiCommunist, and probably favored U.S. aid to China. If so, it was big news to both countries. What (or who), Americans wondered last week, was holding up its publication...