Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy was already working out a thinning diet for itself. Navy Secretary John Sullivan announced that the Navy was closing down nine air stations (eight of them on the West Coast and in the Pacific) and laying up 72 vessels (only 15 of them major combat ships) to squeeze inside its budget. In doing so, the Navy was also shifting its weight around, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, where the Navy would add 30 new combat ships. But the Navy, already possessor of the mightiest aircraft carrier fleet in history, was still going ahead with the building...
...plan was Sweden's-a slight retreat from her long isolation and neutrality. The idea was that the three countries would arm as a unit, with the U.S. giving them the arms. They would thus be not quite in the same boat with the Atlantic-pact West, but would be hanging onto the gunwale, treading water...
...Norway has a common boundary with Russia-a 122½-mile strip on the Arctic tip of the Scandinavian peninsula. It asserted that the proposed Atlantic pact was an attempt by the U.S. and Britain to dominate the world. It asked Norway whether she was going to furnish the West with "air force or naval bases...
Norway recognized this hard fact. And her sympathies remained unbudgeably with the West. Back in Halvard Lange's Oslo, Nils Evensen, 34-year-old cabbie, pointed to his new streamlined Studebaker taxi and said: "If I had to wait for a Russian car, I'd be jobless all my life...
...Communists managed it no one in the West knows. (To this day no one knows the secret of the 1937 purge trial confessions in Russia.) Somehow they broke Joseph Mindszenty, man of burning courage. Somehow they made him say things he had denied with the utmost vehemence, and with full knowledge of the consequences, until his arrest 40 days before...