Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people relaxed. But soon the puzzled taxpayers, tapped for billions of dollars to support the nation's greatest peacetime fighting machine, were reading that all was not going well with unification. Interservice wrangling not only continued, but actually increased...
...Hoffman must have known, there is yet to be found a Communist-dominated coalition which preserves free institutions. The first news dispatches in the U.S. press gave the impression that he had committed the U.S. to political support of a coalition government in China, that the Chiang government was already written off. In Honolulu, on his way home, Hoffman explained that he had been talking about "dealing with the people, not governments." In Pasadena, Calif., he pointed out, with mild irritation, that it was 'the State Department's prerogative to give or withhold political support. Before that...
Stalin's grand, flexible strategy is, Historicus says, to make Russia a base to support two movements-the proletariat of the West and the anti-imperialist movements for national liberation in the East-merging them into [Stalin's phrase] "a single world front against the world front of imperialism...
Peipingers looked on all this activity as a rude intrusion on the quiet culture of their ancient capital. "General Fu is not defending Peiping," they told each other, "Peiping is defending General Fu." There was much to support this view. It was a common rumor that the Reds had picked the lovely cultural center for their national capital. A Communist spokesman in Hong Kong said flatly: "No Chinese army will take the responsibility of destroying Peiping...
...investigating commission. Despite his lack of enthusiasm, the new peace machinery seemed certain to pass its first test impressively-so impressively, in fact, that Acting Secretary of State Lovett considered urging the O.A.S. to set up a similar system for consultation among the American republics on concrete measures to support democratic governments before they fall...