Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even with its reduced strength, the Pacific fleet should be able to handle any threat directed against the U.S. itself. But U.S. allies in the western Pacific were understandably reluctant to lose the morale effect of U.S. forces on the spot. And Navy men were as sad as if they were leaving an old friend. For 27 years, the Pacific had been the Navy's ocean. They would miss its warm waters and its good weather. Said one admiral wistfully: "The Atlantic is a hard, cruel ocean...
Ailing Ernest Bevin set off on the Queen Mary last week to be present in Washington at the solemn signing of the North Atlantic pact. Before he left Britain, speaking in the House of Commons, Bevin reviewed the position of the Western community in its struggle with world Communism. His incautious conclusion: in Western Europe, at least, the cold war has been...
...back in Germany. It looked as if Italy would be completely disrupted. In France, facing the tremendous strikes and maneuvers of the Communist Party, it looked as if the government might fall and chaos might ensue. The real purpose behind it all was to drive a wedge between Western Europe and the Western world and to create a situation where the West could never unite...
...Western Germany, with the majority of the population, is saved. I do not believe they will ever go Communist now. ¶ "France has got over the disruption. Her economy is well on the way to restoration. ¶ "Italy has been saved. [She] has overcome the strikes. She has produced a very firm government...
Bevin was justified in calling attention to the achievement of the past two years, but the picture he drew was both exaggerated and incomplete. In Germany the Western nations had blocked open Communist thrusts, but they had not even begun to build a firm structure to withstand future Communist efforts (see FOREIGN NEWS). Progress in Italy and France had been marked; but neither nation was out of the woods, politically or economically...