Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summarize the easy arguments for giving aid to Tito. We are told it will show anti-Russian (nationalist) groups in other Iron Curtain countries that the U. S. is willing to be friends, to play the kindly uncle to Stalin's stern father. This may or may not help these countries cast off Russian control, but it is a step in the right direction-we may hope for eventual Russian departure from the area...
...Tito will show Russia that we do not like her expansionist tendencies (this, by some idiot logic, is said to lower the tension of the cold war). It will also, if the Iron, Curtain countries cooperate, stimulate trade between East and West which will help Europe get on its economic feet and help break down the barrier now existent between the two regions...
...other hand, Point Four's protagonists state, the program need not entail domination of foreign peoples and would be a positive action against any advance of communism into these areas. It would show, they say, that nations can find means of taking care of their needs without giving up their freedoms, and would win many friends...
Meyers ended the discussion by telling how a Union friend of his approached him during the Fact-Finding Board proceedings and said the Union was going to get Bloody Mary from the show "South Pacific" to mount the stand and recite the most famous line in the play, "You cheap bastards...
...Puritans will be rated a heavy favorite over the Leverett team, which was trounced by Eliot in its opener. Winthrop's hefty forward wall kept Kirkland from scoring, and is expected to wear down the small Leverett frontier. The Puritans didn't show much of an aerial display against Kirkland but it has a hard-driving backfield paced by Frank Hernberg...