Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Harris backed the plan as the only means of making possible a democratic system of socialism instead of one enforced by the USSR, while Sweezy, his ex-pupil and a former associate professor of economics, demanded the plan be junked. "Our obligation is to help all of Europe through some organization such as the UNRRA," he said...
Citing Turkey's favorable economic condition in relation to other European countries, the HLU stated flatly that "the loan is to bolster the Turkish army. We are unalterably opposed to setting up buffer armies against the USSR...
...Both the USSR and the United States are agreed that the peace must provide for a Germany with a central and democratic government. Time may eventually put quotation marks around the word "democratic" because of the varying American and Russian interpretations of the word; but at the present conference it appears that this will provide no great problem. In contrast to the harmony on these issues is the picture of strongly clashing views of the American and Soviet delegations on the matters of reparations and of the degree of centralization in the proposed government...
What set him to wondering about the makeup of the upper level Commie leadership here during his period of Party membership after 1935 were, he explains, the shadowy figures under seemingly assumed names whom he gradually came to look upon as intermediaries with the USSR (one "Edwards" he feels to be the Gerhart Eisler now in the limelight...
This is not to state or imply that the USSR is right and just in the veto question and we are wrong. Rather it is to suggest that as long as national sovereignty remains the world's key frame of reference there will be two good sides to every major problem. Russia will be insistent upon preserving what she considers essential to her national welfare. But her policy, like ours, is not static. As her about-face on the inspection issue proves, the Soviet will change her policy as her nationalistic needs change. The only conclusion, general though...