Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safeguard. But the West had learned to give Soviet offers a wary welcome. After months of hard negotiations, a government for Western Germany was nearly a reality. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made it clear that the U.S. would not allow the Russians to talk Western Germany to death by delays; nor would it permit any German government to be hamstrung by re-establishment of a Russian veto. "The people of Western Germany may rest assured," said Acheson, "that this Government will agree to no general solution for Germany into which the basic safeguards and benefits of the existing Western...
...something" that Acheson referred to was Article 3 of the treaty, which commits all members to "selfhelp" and "mutual aid." Once the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty, said Acheson, it could not consistently repudiate the treaty's commitment to assist Western Europe with arms, but it could reserve the right to determine how much aid the U.S. should provide. The arms program, said Acheson, would be only one-sixth to one-seventh of what the treaty nations would provide for themselves...
...discussion between a Russian general and a British brigadier, the Russians agreed not to interfere any more. For the Russian retreat the Communist press had an odd explanation. The Russians, it solemnly assured its readers, had staged the affair in order to re-establish diplomatic contact with the Western Powers...
...Open Door was closing fast in China. Once the Reds had slammed it shut, the dust of history would settle on half a century of Western endeavor and propagation of Western ideals on Asia's mainland. Watching the relentless march of the Communists below the Yangtze and south across prostrate China, the U.S. wondered: What next in Asia...
...American teachers of democracy could not be .sure where their lessons would end. Once before the Japanese had acquired a veneer of Western progress. They had achieved mass education and mass production. They had learned to forge steel, to fly-and to bomb Pearl Harbor...