Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-page ad last January calling for a committee of 100,000 to get at least a million letters off to Italy posthaste. Points to be made to relatives in the old country: food and relief has been coming from the U.S., not Yugoslavia or other Soviet satellites; Italy's hope for peace depends...
...this ruthless course of action [of the Soviet Union]," he said, "and the clear design to extend it to the remaining free nations of Europe, that have brought about the critical situation in Europe today." It was his duty, he said, to recommend the measures which would "give support to the free and democratic nations of Europe and to improve the solid foundation of our own national strength...
...Blame? Thus ended one of the sorrier chapters in U.S. foreign policy. The reasons for the change in policy were plain enough. The struggle between the Soviet Union and the Western powers had made any true collective action on Palestine impossible. The U.N. Palestine Commission (chief of its secretariat: U.S.'s Ralph Bunche) might as well fold up. The U.S. would not, and could not, undertake the responsibility for bringing Soviet troops into the Middle East. It could take action against the Arabs to enforce partition at the risk of losing not only vital Middle East oilfields, but also...
...solution now proposed left some other questions unanswered. The trusteeship plan seemed to exclude the Soviet Union from the Middle East. The plan could be passed by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly; a Russion veto could not kill it. The troops to police Palestine could be supplied by the Trusteeship Council. But where would the troops come from...
...chief risk was that no military half-measures by the U.S. could now check the momentum of the Soviet Union's advance. But to a man like Lovett there could be no alternative. The Administration's drift, indecision and timidity had encouraged Russia's step-by-step advance ever since the wartime days when U.S. policy was determined by a mixture of military strategy and "liberal" illusions about Communism. At last the U.S. Government was through with its paralyzing illusions and the time had come for decisive action...