Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg rose in the Senate last week to plead for the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State. What made it news was not his support of Acheson, for the Republican champion of the bipartisan foreign policy had often carried the ball for the Democrats, but the qualification he attached to his support. Said Vandenberg...
...major programs, such as the North Atlantic alliance and additional Marshall Plan funds, for which Vandenberg had led the fight, he could again be expected to help out. But Harry Truman could not expect Vandenberg to support any "impromptu and unpredictable" foreign policy the President might embark...
When Chiang told Kuomintang officials to support Vice President Li Tsung-jen, one of his hearers asked: "What can Li do? What are his ways & means to improve the present situation?" Everybody in China, including Li, knew the answer. Li had almost nothing with which to bargain with the Red armies who at week's end stood within 15 miles of China's capital, Nanking. The government was preparing to move to Canton on the south coast and its armies were pulling southwest toward Kweilin and south toward Chekiang Province...
Japanese voters this week gave a smashing electoral victory to the conservative government of cigar-smoking Shigeru Yoshida's Democratic Liberal party. With 263 seats of his own, and the support of 70 almost equally conservative members of the Democratic party, Yoshida would have for the next four years an overwhelming majority of the Diet's lower house of 466 members...
...volume of business does not justify the continuation of three competing U.S. carriers on the North Atlantic route." Damon pointed out that none of the three lines lost money on the route last year despite travel restrictions. "Barring an atomic war," said he, "we ought to be able to support more than three carriers as times get more normal...