Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal hauled the top brass and the top braid off to the seclusion of Key West and Newport, ostensibly-so the reports said-to knock the big heads together. But on close inspection, the big heads emerged not even bloody, much less unbowed. Was "unification" a failure...
...opportunity to understand what threatens them. Stalin's line shifts. Sometimes he acts like a flaming revolutionist, sometimes like a good fellow who just wants to get along. The latter aspect is especially prominent in interviews given by Stalin over the years to visiting writers from the West. The confusion adds up to the "inscrutable Stalin," the man nobody knows. This misconception about Stalin is one of the most important facts of world politics today...
...manipulable strategy and tactics, Stalin's followers - and his intended victims - have to understand the inner theory and program. Historicus puts his heaviest stress on Stalin's use of fixed theory right along with and intermeshed with shifting tactics. Stalin employs both, simultaneously. Most politicians of the West tend to bear down on one or the other, in a given situation...
...books helped to explain Germany's military collapse from the German side: Defeat in the West, by Milton Shulman, a former Canadian intelligence officer, and The German Generals Talk, by British Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. Both concluded that the German army's biggest handicap in the field was Adolf Hitler's personal direction of the war. Of special interest and excellent of their kind were A. D. Divine's Dunkirk, a brilliant recording of the cross-Channel rescue of Britain's beaten army in 1940, and Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France...
...which the Kremlin (with little resistance from the U.S. Government) took over the Polish state. Political pundits had a sure-fire topic in Russia v. the Western democracies. Most crisp and provocative of a spate of books on the subject was bright, British Barbara Ward's The West at Bay, in which she argued that Western Europe must have Western Union or "we are for the dark...