Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulty was that this moral and economic desire to Americanize the world often ran against the wishes of the people concerned and against the principle of self-determination with which the United States had long identified itself. With the post-war rise of anti-colonial nationalism in Asia and Africa, Williams argues, the policy of American economic expansion has proved more and more useless...
...case but one, Russia retreated from these efforts [at territorial aggrandizement] in the face of America's vigorous opposition" slurs over the fact that the "one" case (if in deed there was only one) was all of Eastern Europe and that American opposition was based on the principle of self-determination that even Williams holds dear...
Neither the smoke screens of Communist propaganda nor the fog of Western self-doubt could obscure the nakedness of the Communist challenge last week or the facts of growing faith and growing strength in the camp of free men. Items...
Biggest trouble of all was in the hastily created people's communes, which showed signs of developing into self-contained economic empires. Some communes, "regardless of the state plan," refused to surrender any of their harvest for distribution in the cities. Complained Finance Vice Minister Wu Po: "There are even communes that make no distinction between their own property and that of the state. They freely use state materials stored in warehouses, eat state grain as they like, and take things from stockpiles without bothering to render receipts...
...does not explain his saint. Perhaps, his justification might run, there is no explanation for the existence of a man so out of joint with his world that he cannot feel hate, is incapable of acting in self-interest or even self-protection. He is a blind soul who probes his way, not with the white cane of rationality but with a mild, gentle love...