Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stone asserted that any pressure exerted upon agents or prospective agents did not come from officers or directors of the corporation itself. He added that he thought agents may have been offended by well-intentioned University support for the new combine...
...break would lead to one of two possibilities. One, the Russians would fight to regain complete power, as they did in Hungary, with the West offering no aid. Or two, if the break were successful, and Poland became a member of the Western block, it would then have no support against the danger of Germany swallowing it up again...
...rule is certainly still authoritarian, but rests firmly on the popular support which Gomulka commands. "Gomulka gained his standing by becoming a symbol of national rejection of Soviet domination," Brzezinski said...
...leader of the church, which is Roman Catholic in Poland, is Cardinal Wyszynski. He, single-handedly, is credited by many with having averted a Polish civil war. By urging support, instead of opposition to Gomulka's regime, he consolidated the political power in the country, and helped to gain new recognition and prestige for his own institution. The church seems to have gained "relative autonomy" from the state today, but of course is still far from its pre-war position...
...more important than his Department's policies. In time of war, it is conceivable that the government must limit public knowledge for purposes of security. But such drastic action--and limitation of individual rights to knowledge is always drastic--should not be invoked arbitrarily by the State Department to support a policy which is certainly open to question and in need of free investigation...