Word: toward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article in LIFE last week by Columnist Jay Franklin, who had written campaign speeches for Truman. Franklin (speaking for himself and specifically not for LIFE) had asserted that the President was preparing to swing away from the For-restal-Marshall-Lovett-Vandenberg policy to a softer policy toward the Russians. That article, said Truman sharply, is absolutely without foundation, in fact, in nearly every instance and every paragraph...
...Gross Slander." Most Washington correspondents believed that Dean Acheson had been sincerely converted to a get-tough policy toward Russia. It was he who helped inspire, draft and put over the Greek-Turkish aid program. Before a Senate committee, Acheson charged: "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." Molotov protested that it was "gross slander ... inadmissible behavior . . . hostile," and was slapped down by George Marshall...
Some observers, reading the Truman messages, saw the U.S. rushing straight into a "social-welfare state," saw it as a not too roundabout way to socialism. The Manchester Guardian, which sees socialism at first hand every day, thought that the U.S., as an alternative to socialism, was heading toward an "insurance state," i.e., "deliberate shortening of the odds against the weak but without abandoning the individualist way of life...
...Toward the end Author Costain tries to liven things up a bit. Félicité is dragged by her ankles, with her pretty thighs exposed, by her brutal nobleman husband whom she has been forced to marry, is beaten by him with a cudgel "not thicker than a man's thumb," and is kidnaped by Indians. This, presumably, is what readers of this kind of novel have been waiting for, but it is a long wait, and they are in for further dull stretches before virtue and justice at last prevail...
Chinese Communists are not winning because of communism but because they are taking advantage of a social change he added. I don't think we can save the status quo by supporting Chiang's government. America must develop a positive policy toward China and compete with communism...