Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murray did not think they would find against...
...commitment to rearm Europe nation by nation, said Dulles firmly. Under its terms, a council and defense committee would make recommendations. "If the recommendations seem to be advantageous, I assume we will accept them. If they appear to be disadvantageous, we are certainly free to reject them ... I think it is worth something to us that there are brave people close to danger who are willing, if need be, to absorb the first shock of devastating attack ... It is not right to treat such people as mendicants." As for an armament race, "that cannot occur under the treaty without...
...mattered not to Trainman Whitney that the new bill was milder-in 27 spots -than Taft-Hartley; Whitney wanted his boys to think that it was really worse. "If this vicious proposal should ever become law," he told his union in its weekly newspaper, "we shall be only one step from Adolf Hitler's form of government...
...themselves." If the U.S. should ever adopt the same kind of a scheme, "we must be prepared to accept the same increases in taxes and government controls. But of much greater significance is the depressing effect upon the spirit of the people. Britons want security, but we do not think they have found it . . . To the extent that any man accepts the doctrine that the State alone can bring him security and happiness, he will lose faith in himself...
There is one point on which McPherrin agrees with Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, with whom he talked. To work effectively, such a government health plan needs "complete centralized control." Concludes McPherrin: "I don't think many Americans would be willing to grant that much control because they are not used to that type of government...