Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George N. Craig, National Commander of the American Legion, hotly demanded that the U.S. send troops to rescue Ward and his companions if the Chinese Communists do not release him. The remedy involved not only risking Ward's life, but war. This week Dean Acheson appealed to 30 nations, including Russia, to protest the conduct of the Chinese Communists...
...State Department was also obliged to deliver a formal protest to the other side in China's war. A U.S. freighter, the Flying Cloud, had been shot at by a destroyer escort while running the Nationalist blockade off the China coast. The protest was bound to be mild, since the department does not acknowledge the blockade but looks upon it benignly...
...formal state of war which still exists between the Western nations and Germany would be softened by juggling some technicalities, but not altogether suspended (the U.S. wants to retain a legal basis for keeping a U.S. force in Western Germany...
...Adenauer and his government had expected to get. Last week the Chancellor and the Western High Commissioners began negotiations to put the Paris agreement to work. (The Germans loved the word "negotiations"-it gave them a standing as a semi-sovereign nation which they had not known since the war.) Vast difficulties still remained, including the possibility that in this week's foreign-policy debate the French Assembly might try to whittle down the Paris decisions. But, as Konrad Adenauer put it, "The German Federal Republic has this day taken a great step forward...
...long as men have fought wars, victors have exacted payment of indemnities from the vanquished. But systematic dismantling of factories as reparations came as an innovation in the wake of World War II. At Yalta and Potsdam the U.S., Britain and Russia tried to avoid the mistake made by the Allies after World War I, i.e., to demand an impossible money tribute from Germany; instead, they plumped for reparations in capital equipment. In addition to anything she cared to take out of her own zone, Russia was to get 25% of the dismantled plants from the West...