Word: viewpoints
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Russians were told last week that the Red Army had taken Rokitno, ten miles inside Rovno Province and one step closer to the still distant (200 miles) Polish border. Most of the rest of the world considered that the Russians had advanced ten miles into Poland. The difference in viewpoint established the first tangible test of Teheran; people everywhere watched to see how the powers would meet...
...Latest poke came last week from Moscow's Pravda and the pen of Bulgar Georgi Dimitroff, onetime defendant at Naziism's Reichstag fire trial and secretary of the late unlamented Communist International (see p. 20). Warned Bulgar Dimitroff: "The national policy of Bulgaria, from the viewpoint of her future, demands loyal cooperation with her neighbors. . . . Only by breaking with Germany at once and assisting in the defeat of Germany will Bulgaria save herself from catastrophe...
...Risk. Benton and Johnston found that most British businessmen not only welcomed monopoly, but also welcomed Government as a business partner, looking to it to control competition and provide security. They expected the Government to supply cash to prevent bankruptcy of large employers of labor. Benton high lighted this viewpoint with an anecdote...
...disapproves his country's present foreign policy. He wishes Argentina would take her place alongside the United Nations. But he insisted that Argentines are nearly 100% pro-Ally. If they do not choose to fight it is for three reasons: "A wrong conception of international politics, a pacific viewpoint engendered by 82 years of peace, a spreading of propaganda by Argentine isolationists that the U.S. is taking advantage of World War II to make a colony of South America." Said...
...these moves the President moved with both the present and the future in mind-diplomatically toward an economic viewpoint in foreign affairs (Crowley, Stettinius, Harriman); militarily toward action (General Marshall); domestically toward conservatism, sensible production-scheduling, less red tape...