Word: sup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world outlook is in several respects today less promising than it seemed after [World War I]. There is none of the confidence now among men that they or their children will never see again another world war, as there was un doubtedly in 1919. It is our duty to sup ply the solid ground from which this hope may arise again - and live." Churchill then supplied the ground: British and U.S. collaboration on every thing, together always, and with Russia if possible (see INTERNATIONAL). Said he, giving President Truman's recent "Twelve Points," of U.S. foreign policy more weight...
Myth Dispelled. Propaganda could no longer conceal the fact that the Commu nist regime had relied for much of its strength on the prospect of Russian sup port. Despite its claims, Yenan controlled not more than a fifth of China and 70,000,000 Chinese. Even that control, in the sense of mass support, had yet to be impartially assessed. Its regular army did not exceed 450,000 men, and they had only 250,000 rifles...
...this decade you have undertaken vast new obligations, which we sup port. But because you have not applied to these obligations the ordinary standards of business judgment, you have lost our money by the billions and we, the people, say: give us a businesslike administration that will act as the steward of our prosperity; that will ensure the social progress that is now threatened; and that will manage our affairs at least as intelligently as we manage our own enterprises...
...Steel. Japan's war lords know that their upstart industry and slave labor cannot hope to match Allied production. But the war lords are pinning their forlorn hopes on other factors to save them, for years to come: 1) Russian neutrality; 2) geography, which lengthens Allied sup ply lines as it shortens Japan's; 3) stock piles of vital raw materials, high enough to last up to two years; 4) Allied war weariness, and revulsion against casualties heavier than in Europe...
Died. Maurice Bunau-Varilla, 88, opportunist publisher of Paris' recently pro-Nazi Le Matin, brother of the late famed engineer, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who helped start the Panama Canal; in Paris. In appreciation of Le Matin's sup port, the invading Nazis ordered large quantities of Synthol, an externally ap plied headache nostrum under Bunau-Varilla's control...