Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large military machine. Any Russian entrenchment in northern Iran comes as an economic and strategic threat to the Anglo-American interests in nearby Arabia. Besides giving the Soviet Union sufficient oil to maintain the ambitions of the Red Army, the plan for twenty-five years of Russian exploitation would weaken Allied control of the Iranian government and weaken the entire Anglo-American position in the Middle East. The United States alternately prodded and soothed Iran's Premier Ghavam into refusing Russian demands for immediate action on the pact. An explosion of threats and ultimatums from Moscow was countered with...
...there should not be too much surprise at the vehemence of Russian reaction. Mr. Vishinsky was not primarily slurring either Secretary Marshall's logic or his good intentions. Rather he was voicing Russia's unwillingness to weaken her power position. Deplorable, perhaps, but rather inevitable. From 1917 to 1933, actually to 1941, Russia was a pariah nation. Except for her satellites, she stands alone among a U.N. membership that proffers at least verbal homage to the ideology of the western democracies. To Russia the veto power is an indispensable protection against U.N. actions which would be undesirable from the Russian...
...Divide & Weaken. The free-for-all was finally joined by somebody who really knows Yugoslavia, even though he has not been there for six years: the Rt. Rev. Iriney Georgevich, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Dalmatia, now living in exile in the U.S. Said he: "I was shocked. . . . I cannot understand how as servants of God [the seven Protestants] can accept so gladly an invitation from one of the most ruthless tyrannies the world ever has known. I can only ask these clergymen whether they would have thought it proper to accept an invitation from Hitler. . . . The tactics used by Tito...
...Schulberg: "The cocktail party is America's favorite form of seduction.... The plot is always the same. Come up to my room and have a drink. And whether the object is physical passion or getting your client's name into the headlines, the method is standard: to weaken their resistance with let-me-pour-you-another-one, until they open their arms or their columns to you in an alcoholic daze. Of course there will always be some ladies, and members of the working press, who bounce back regularly after each seduction, holding out their empty glasses, eager...
...they weaken," he declared, "we shall need to make many basic readjustments"--wage and salary increases "in some cases," lower prices "in the numerous instances where profit margins permit or where future profits would be better protected, by assuring larger volume through lower prices," now social legislation, and restoration of some wartime government controls...