Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FULLY RECOGNIZING YOUR KEEN INTEREST IN AROUSING AMERICA TO REAL MENACE OF COMMUNISM, MAY I CALL UPON YOU TO HELP GREEK NATION PRESENTLY ENGAGED IN DEATH STRUGGLE WITH FORCES OF COMMUNISM, OUTCOME OF WHICH IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO WESTERN DEMOCRACIES, AND VERY PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH WE IN AMERICA FIGHT...
...GREECE, WHEN AT GENERAL VAN FLEET'S INVITATION ACCOMPANIED HIM ON VISIT TO FIGHTING FRONTS. FROM FIRST-HAND OBSERVATIONS, LEARNED GREECE IS FIGHTING COMMUNISTS IN FULL-SCALE ALL-OUT WAR WHICH IS MOST VIOLENT AND RUTHLESS IN HER HISTORY. TRUE TO HER TRADITION, GREECE AGAIN FIGHTS TO PRESERVE WESTERN DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATION...
...Dirk U. Stikker talked to Secretary Acheson for two hours, and was pressed to come to terms with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...
...wrath was the $5.5 billion authorization bill to carry ECA through its next 15 months of operation (see INTERNATIONAL). All week long a little knot of Republicans chipped and chiseled away at the whole tripod of U.S. foreign policy-ECA, the North Atlantic pact, the arms program for Western Europe. Their weapon was an amendment drafted by Nebraska's Republican floor leader Kenneth Wherry, which would lop $1.9 billion off ECA's budget and extend it only a year...
...Three years ago I made a speech at Fulton . . . Many people here and in my own country were startled and even shocked by what I said . . . Today there is a very different climate of opinion . . . We have the famous Marshall aid, the new unity in Western Europe, and now the Atlantic pact. . . No one could have brought about these immense changes . .. . but for the astounding policy of the Russian Soviet government. We may well ask, 'Why have they deliberately acted for three long years so as to unite the free world against them...