Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West had learned how to get on with its work without getting on with the Russians. The lifting of the blockade had been proof of the West's success, the rebellion of the voters in Russia's Eastern Zone was a welcome and unexpected bonus. "I think perhaps we have a better opportunity . . . than we have had before," Acheson declared. "We most certainly are now in a better position to deal with the consequences of a failure . . . We cannot allow [our foreign policy] to become subject to the fluctuations produced by a raising and lowering of the international...
...Withdrew, after once vowing that he never would, the nomination of his old poker pal, former Governor Mon C. Wallgren of Washington, as $14,000-a-year chairman of the National Security Resources Board. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which did not think ex-Senator Wallgren was up to the job, had pigeonholed the nomination for three months...
...Pentagon press conference, firing answers at newsmen as fast as they could write them down. (Would Germany ally herself with Russia? ". . . Only if the Western powers [were] unwilling to accept Germany back into the community of nations." The future of East-West relations? "I don't think we should ever forget that this is a real struggle between democracy and communism-and that it is going to continue for many years...
...think it is even more basically a principle of our American democracy that every citizen should enjoy freedom of speech and thought...You...blatantly propose to violate the principles on which both our democracy and our educational system are founded...
...statements since the dismissals has taken membership in the Progressive party to mean compliance with the party line. In reply to a letter he has written, "I haven't received many letters like years from Oregon. Yours needs more like some that have come to me from Brooklyn. I think you have been reading too much communist propaganda that has appeared under the guise of the Progressive Party." In another letter Strand put "Communist organization apologists for the Soviet Union, officials of the Progressive Party, and many other fellow travellers" in the same category...