Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito's heresy can be of great value to the U. S. Since the danger to American security today is not communism but Russian expansion, Tito's break with the Cominform is an encouraging sign of abatement in the cold war. If his venture is successful, both Eastern and Western communists may adopt his doctrine of independence...
...Western sector of Berlin on a summer morning of 1948, General Lucius Clay cast the die: "We will stay in this city." Clay's fighting faith mounted into the thunder of the airlift. And with their will, Berlin's people tipped the scales of decision; the Russians lifted the blockade when they realized that Berliners would not be intimated...
...Allies apparently plan to do little. They have left small staffs behind to run Western Berlin as though it were simply 2,000,000 people. U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy makes only short visits to his OMGUS office. The halls of the building that was Clay's command post echo" now to the irrelevant footsteps of janitors, shuffling past nameless doors...
...regard itself as the capital of the college football world,* found it hard to take the Army team seriously. Local opinion was that West Point had been incautious, if not downright foolhardy, in scheduling a game with the University of Michigan's rebuilt postwar juggernaut, pride of the Western Conference and No. 1 ranking team of the land. But since somebody had to be Michigan's 26th consecutive victim, and Army was sure to put up a stout fight, some 97,000 went out to the university stadium to see the massacre...
Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung last week cut off news from Red China to U.S. and other Western papers. In Shanghai, his Alien Affairs Bureau ordered all correspondents, except those representing publications in countries which had recognized the new regime (i.e., Russia, its satellites and Yugoslavia), to stop filing cables. That left Hong Kong and Canton as the only major news centers in China still open to U.S. newsmen. Protested the U.S. State Department: "A crude effort on the part of the Chinese Communists to force recognition...