Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the AVC executive board decided to recommend that the fund, which now rests in a Washington bank, be used "to assist in the support of one or more Asiatic student whose studies at Harvard are intended as preparation for future constructive service in the regeneration of Asia." If the motion is approved by the members the money will be given next year to one or two Asiatic students who need...
Bill Gelck, recently elected captain of the team, is a Jack of all jumps. The Crimson's top high Jumper, he combines with Jim McLaughlin to form an effective broad jumping team. Both Gelck and McLaughlin also support Durakis in the hurdles. Not content with these events, Geick likes to dabble in the pole vault...
Three arguments have turned up most frequently in support of the program. A group of high officers, including General Omar N. Bradley, have been supporting it from a military angle, claiming that strengthening the treaty countries would give us European bridgehead in case of war, that "abandosing these countries with a promise of later liberation" is militarily unsound. Bradley and his colleagues believe that the arms aid could enable Western Europe to hold on until the U. S. could "funnel in forces...
...second argument, and the one which Mr. Acheson is emphasizing, is that the aid would promptly lift morale in the countries getting it. Recent events support his theory; when the arms question was first mentioned, representatives of most of the Western European nations enthusiastically applauded the idea, and appeared with polite requests for various amounts of military gear totaling something over three billion dollars. The most frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming...
...Council voted 7 to 6 in favor of giving financial support to a Class of 1950 dance