Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West will never preserve its influence in Asia by backing governments which have nothing to offer but anti-Communism. It must choose allies who can show that Western democracy has more to offer the people of Asia than the Communists. This is the lesson of the collapse in China...
Then things began to happen. With Russian pressure for a new four-power conference and abandonment of the proposed West German state (see above), the West could not afford to have the Bonn talks collapse now. First, the West offered important concessions strengthening the proposed central government's legislative and fiscal powers; this was designed to pacify the Socialists. The wires buzzed between Washington and U.S. officials in Germany. Next, the State Department's old Germany hand, Robert Murphy, left his desk at half a day's notice, flew to Germany. After days of conferences, Schumacher...
Clay and Murphy hope that the constitution for the "Federal Republic of Germany" will go to the eleven West German states for ratification by May 15. In the face of Russian maneuvers, the Western Allies and the Western Germans at last presented a united front...
With Nanking in their clutch, the Reds struck and took east & west. Hankow, key to the middle Yangtze and the Pittsburgh of China, seemed ready to go the way of Nanking; a crack Red army from Manchuria, under General Lin Piao, was advancing hard from the north. In China's northwest, long-beleaguered Taiyuan, site of the biggest Nationalist arsenal below the Great Wall, fell before another Communist blow...
...Angeles Evening Herald & Express wanted to give their boss a birthday present, perhaps a plaid shirt like the gaudy ones he usually wears. Managing Editor John Bayard Taylor Campbell, whose loud & lusty journalism had given the paper (circ. 410,470) its bumptious slogan-"The biggest daily west of Chicago"*-last week was celebrating his 69th birthday and his 50th year in the newspaper business. But when the party-loving reporters got started on the celebration, there was no stopping...