Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Taft's perseverence in isolation has led him to suggest recently that the United States withdraw the Baruch plan for international atomic energy control "until the world is in a more peaceful state." By throwing this idea upon the table as a last futile barrage against the Lilienthal confirmation, Taft shocked many people, even his Republican colleagues. It is clear, however, that the Taft proposal to squelch the American atomic plan is a type of thinking characteristic of the present power conflict between the United States and Russia...
Under the circumstances, Langer argues, the U.S. would have been foolish to withdraw in a high-minded huff merely out of distaste for Darlans and Lavals. Langer says that Vichy's North African governor, General Maxime Weygand, "was just as intent as we on excluding the Germans from North Africa and blocking any program of collaboration." Nine months before the U.S. went to war with Germany, the U.S. agreed to ship Weygand limited supplies of coal, sugar, tea, etc. In return, Weygand let U.S. vice consuls work with French Resistance leaders and report in cipher to Washington. In this...
Britain, I am sure, has little if any "fat in the fire" where Greece is concerned, and with pressure being applied at home and abroad would probably thankfully withdraw all her troops and services but for the threat of an ever-expanding Russia in this last stronghold of Western culture and Western-type democracy ... in the Balkan nations...
...Steel President Benjamin Fairless considered the problem. He was, quite understandably, unwilling to reduce prices until he knew what he would have to pay under a new wage contract. Wages are 40% of steel production costs. Would Phil Murray, president of the steelworkers' union, withdraw his wage demands if Fairless announced a price cut? Murray, afraid of weakening his bargaining position, would not commit himself. He has simply made it clear that he thinks Steel can raise wages, an argument given substance by U.S. Steel's 1946 net profit: $88.7 million. Murray and Fairless were like...
...policy might force a showdown; Russia could conceivably withdraw from U.N. But for all practical purposes Russia has never accepted the fundamental theory of U.N. She has declined to join any of U.N.'s most important specialized agencies (e.g., UNESCO, the World Bank, Refugee, Labor, Food and Agricultural Organizations). She has used U.N. as a debating society, and manipulated her veto power to play power politics...