Word: western
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...other conclusion was that even U.S. support of the Brussels pact (see INTERNATIONAL) would not prevent the rape of Western Europe unless U.S. military strength were increased sharply. Like Smith, Forrestal urged passage of U.M.T. He added a request for selective service, to fill the ranks until U.M.T. could get under...
Forrestal's urgent report was the final pressure behind the President's call for selective service and U.M.T. The decision had been taken after long consultation between White House, State Department and Defense heads. The decision was to commit the U.S. to full military support of Western Union-even if that should mean, in event of war, a military retreat from the Mediterranean. To make the guarantee effective, the U.S. needed, in one of Marshall's favorite phrases, "the military posture" to lend its words authority...
...wherever the U.S. could best apply it. The U.S. would have to underwrite Europe's economic recovery with military force. The area which the U.S. policymakers had chosen for the main effort, the most probable route of the enemy's advance, was the rich industrial heartland of Western Europe. That was why the U.S. was prepared to back Western Union...
...Palestine (see above). In Turin, Foreign Minister Georges Bi-dault, as spokesman for the West, proposed the return of Trieste to Italy. That was a sound effort to prevent a Communist victory in the Italian elections next month, to draw a non-Communist Italy into the orbit of Western Union. Still further bids to the Italian voters were in the works. One prospect: a U.S. proposal that Italy be admitted...
...Henry replied in two radio speeches that sounded more than ever like the gospel from Moscow. Typical quotes: "The word 'Communism' is a much greater menace than the Communists. . . Adolf Hitler made good political use of this red-baiting weapon, but. . .his first attack was made on western democracies, not Russia. . . . It is not Russia, but American democracy which is the intended victim of the first attack...