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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold hammering away on the plan's economic aspects had left it with about as much political appeal to an Italian peasant as a page from the Statistical Abstract. U.S. propaganda agencies abroad, limited in funds, were ineffectual. The U.S. spoke-when it spoke-from the other side of the Atlantic. Russia hollered right down the chimney...
Into the record went Henry's written polemic of 11,000 words, while, with Running Mate Glen Taylor at his side, he read abstracts from it. The Marshall Plan, he said, was a "blueprint" for war, a "colossal hoax" on the people of the U.S., and would "impose Washington and Wall Street intervention in the internal affairs of the participating countries." He had a counter proposal: the U.S. should give $50 billion to the United Nations to be spent for relief over the next ten years...
...they had no reason to expect that he would be anything but "regular." Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb. Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success. On the side, he liked to read Elizabethan poetry...
...Grundy in Politics. Here was the other side of appeasement's coin. Kiss 'em or kill 'em, but don't come to grips with reality. Don't let the troops in Greece fire a shot-somebody might get hit. Don't worry about essential oil supplies in the Middle East-somebody might make a profit. Don't get into the China war-the government is corrupt. Don't give Western Europe a military guarantee against Russia-it might have to be kept. Don't speak up for U.S. ideals of democracy...
...usual, the worst news continued to come from Manchuria. During the week the Communists stormed and captured the critical port city of Yingkow. The Reds boasted that the garrison had gone over to their side. In beleaguered Mukden itself, freezing citizens tore down walls and rafters for firewood...