Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victory in 1950." Western Europe had its own reasons for the way it felt. Very few people had any grudge against Tom Dewey. A lot of Europeans were just like Premier Themistocles Sophoulis in Athens,-who said: "Somehow I feel I know President Truman. Governor Dewey might have been equally good, but I would have to learn that first." In Switzerland the eminent Gazette de Lausanne decided that "the victory of Truman is really the victory of Marshall...
Also from Bucharest last week came another story (true), of a U.S. diplomat who had some business to conduct with a high-ranking official of Rumania's heavily guarded Ministry of the Interior. After several unsuccessful attempts, he finally managed to work his way into the imposing white ministry building, and past innumerable guards, to the top floor. There stood two doors with a hardboiled, armed member of the security police posted before each one. The American showed his credentials to the guard at the first door, who looked him over suspiciously and disappeared into the official...
...jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin." His criticism of democracy was not aimed at its defects, but at its inadequacy, its incompleteness. Democracy without Christianity was not so much the opposite of the police state as it was its forerunner. "Liberalism can .prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutal control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos...
...once, the word "efforts" applied. It had all come hard for Eliot. He had had to get all the way from the complex pretensions of his time...
...called for statehood, and Dr. Francisco M. Susoni, who had plumped for immediate independence of the U.S. Though virtually all Puerto Ricans wanted one or the other of these things, most had been convinced that Muñoz' moderate program of industrialization and economic development was a surer way of getting them...