Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussions with Washington and conversations with government leaders abroad," Mr. Linen said, "have made it clear" that it would not now be fitting for us to press our invitations to the heads of state, foreign ministers, and other government officials of Western Europe on the eve of a crisis as grave as the one looming over their countries today. Recent events signal all too unmistakably the fact that April will be a period of crises almost certain to tie top government people to their desks abroad...
...Blame? Thus ended one of the sorrier chapters in U.S. foreign policy. The reasons for the change in policy were plain enough. The struggle between the Soviet Union and the Western powers had made any true collective action on Palestine impossible. The U.N. Palestine Commission (chief of its secretariat: U.S.'s Ralph Bunche) might as well fold up. The U.S. would not, and could not, undertake the responsibility for bringing Soviet troops into the Middle East. It could take action against the Arabs to enforce partition at the risk of losing not only vital Middle East oilfields, but also...
Secretary of State Marshall declared yesterday that the United States intends to stay in Berlin, despite a Soviet-led clamor for the western powers...
...Soviet puppets capture Western Europe, "I would become a pessimist with regard to avoiding World War Ill," President Conant told the Boston Rotary Club yesterday. "We must therefore do all in our power to see that the 16 nations of the European plan preserve an economy which will keep immune from the virus of the Soviet Philosophy...
...hundred students will be accepted for the vacation project, which is designed "to give American students the broadest possible acquaintance with the seaboard countries of Western Europe within nine weeks at a reasonable price," according to an NSA leaflet issued by Richard...