Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was that. Washington and the capitals of Western Europe breathed a little more easily, although in an atmosphere of continuing uncertainty and suspense. The feeling was, "What next?" Not since Harry Truman had similarly embarrassed Secretary of State Byrnes (who also happened to be in Paris at the time) by approving Henry Wallace's attack on U.S. foreign policy had such an ill-timed action of the President caused such general consternation or put his Secretary of State on such an impossible spot...
...prospect of a Western deal with Franco frightened Spaniards in exile into something they have never before been able to achieve-unity, or at least a semblance of it. In Paris, the Spanish Socialists announced that they had reached an agreement with their political enemies, the Spanish Monarchists.* They called for Franco's ouster and a democratic regime in Spain. Unfortunately, ousting Franco was far more easily said than done...
...Western reconciliation with Franco would be a serious blow to the West's moral position. Red propaganda would offer it as proof that Western democracy is fascism in disguise. These political liabilities of friendship with Franco seem to outweigh the advantage of advance agreement on bases...
...many-columned neo-classical facades (like those in Washington, D.C.), and the functionalists whose housing projects looked like "military barracks." Just what, then, should a proper Soviet structure look like? Pravda didn't seem to know much about architecture, but it knew what it didn't like. Western architecture, said Pravda, "has reached a dead end of formalist sophistication and box-style, soulless construction [but] Soviet art is always going forward along the road indicated by the party and the government...
...Leithead has a salesman's persuasive tongue, the casual manners of an ex-cowhand (he worked on his father's ranch in Lovell, Wyo.), and a vague distrust of Eastern ways. (Until he took up foxhunting in Westchester County, N.Y., he would not ride anything but a Western saddle.) When his son Roger reached college age, Leithead, who went to two colleges (Drake and Northwestern) but never graduated, sent him to Iowa State, saying: "The Ivy League isn't worth a darn so far as making...