Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic system means Western Union in Europe, which can only come about with U.S. support and leadership. It also means close meshing of Western European and U.S. military establishments, of which the U.S.A.F.-R.A.F. alliance is the forerunner...
...fact that all over Germany men were acutely aware of liberty and of its connection with the U.S.-British air lift was the real answer to last week's Russian note. The Kremlin said flatly that they were using the blockade to pry the Western powers out of Berlin...
Where did that leave the crisis? The Western powers could go on supplying Berlin for months. Some experts in Washington now believed that the volume transported could be greatly increased and that Berlin could even be supplied with coal through the winter. The operation would be fantastically expensive, but worth it, politically. The Berlin lift was a kind of 20th Century miracle play representing both the West's humanitarian purpose and its military strength. Said a high-ranking U.S. air officer last week: "A year's supply of Berlin would be cheap compared...
...Shanghai's soaring inflation, nor the tide of battles lost & won. It is the horde of refugees streaming southward, 30,000,000 starving, diseased, despairing people. They stand for the breakdown of Chinese society under Communist hammer blows which caught China in the difficult and disturbing transition toward Western progress. The Communist attack has not only halted such progress; it is sweeping away the village, the family-all the ancient pillars of Chinese society which endured despite primitive economics and decadent politics. TIME China Correspondent Fred Gruin last week headed the following report with a quotation from...
Today there is another generation of refugees, stumbling for another eternity from the battlefronts of Manchuria and North China. The scale of this exodus beggars Western feeling and experience. It is overwhelmingly one-way-from Communist into Nationalist territory...