Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow pounced quickly on Cannon's remarks to prove to its own people that the U.S. planned an attack on Russia, and to tell Western Europeans that the U.S. wanted them to fight the ground war if it came. If Cannon thought he was stating the case for the Air Force over their naval competitors, he was mistaken. The Air Force's Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg was indeed confident that his airmen could reach almost anywhere with their intercontinental B-36 bombers, starting from U.S. bases. But no responsible airman claimed that the Air Force could...
Technically, the Russians had the power to keep it up indefinitely, and for all the West knew, they might try to do just that. But the fact was that the blockade had embarrassed the Russians more than it had the West. Since the Western powers refused to let any trade pass into the Russian zone while the blockade was on, the economic situation in Russia's Germany has become increasingly serious. East Berlin's Communist Mayor Friedrich Ebert last week publicly proposed that trade between the two sections of the city be resumed. Behind the scenes, Germans...
With the demise of the traditional freshman catch-all, History 1, the field has become much more attractive. Social Sciences 1, which is designed to take the place of History 1, will center around the important elements in western civilization and will be given by two of the department's most competent men--Taylor, who used to teach History 1a, and Brinton...
...United Nations Council of Harvard which sponsors the talks has attempted to create more interest in international affairs and to show the problems facing the Western European Nations and countries on this side of the Atlantic...
...exactly what they want so there will be no constitution at all. Even if the Allies give in to the Social Democrats the action would antagonize the Christian Democrats and result only in another deadlock. If the Bonn council does fail it will be a major defeat for the Western powers who have committed themselves to a German State, and the Germans and Russians know it--perhaps too well...