Word: war
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From ECA's very beginning this proposition had been recognized-in theory. But in its first year, ECA, faced with an emergency, tended to the opposite direction. ECA sometimes stimulated fast production in a way that worked against future European economic unity and overall efficiency. Example: before the war, The Netherlands made heavy purchases from Belgium's big railway equipment industry. Today, the Belgians do not want to trade with The Netherlands because the Dutch can pay them only guilders, not now convertible to dollars. Like everyone else in Europe, the Belgians want dollars...
...with the U.N. but devoted to U.N. affairs. In an article quoted by major U.S. newspapers, the magazine said that Russia had decided on a major policy shift towards peace with the West. Andrei Gromyko, explained the U.N. World, had persuaded Joseph Stalin that the U.S. did not want war and that U.S. economic aid to Russia and Eastern Europe might be forthcoming if Moscow offered a genuine demonstration of good will. The Politburo, after heated debate, had accepted the "Gromyko Plan...
...resulted from any sudden realization that the U.S. wants peace; Russian leaders must have known that all along. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith last week recalled a revealing remark Stalin had made when Smith was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow. Stalin had told him: "We do not want war any more than the West does, but we are less interested in peace than the West, and therein lies the strength of our position...
Acheson, who has a keener sense for conference table tactics than either George Marshall or James Byrnes, frankly stated the U.S. position: "We are in Berlin by virtue of international agreements...but more fundamentally we are there on account of power and force and the successful prosecution of the war...We are in Berlin not merely to administer the city but to be in Berlin...
...King Is Useless." A complicating factor is Leopold's Bavarian-born, 72-year-old mother, Elisabeth, widow of the revered Albert and heroine of World War I. She has a habit of popping up in Brussels to dedicate Communist art exhibits, and was recently listed as one of the sponsors of the Communist "peace" rally in Paris...