Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. For the common consent achieved at Bangkok, the U.S. thanks the (literally) shirtsleeve diplomacy practiced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who first conceived SEATO. But the basic factor underlying success in both places is confidence that the U.S. will neither encroach upon nor abandon its friends and allies...
...Abandon. Last week Bader was in the midst of a U.S.-Canada inspection tour. While in Ottawa, he met some of his Battle-of-Britain buddies at the Royal Canadian Flying Clubs' Association. As old flyers will, he got to reminiscing about the old days when aviation was still a sport...
What he missed most, said Bader, was "the gay abandon of the prewar days, with a little clubhouse and a field with light airplanes on it, people having tea under sunshades, and all that pleasant peaceful scene." Flying then was "something exciting and different, and we all wanted to go up in an airplane. It was of course a two-seater, open-cockpit.job . . . Our ardor might have been damped if our first experience of flying was sitting in a pressurized tube looking out of a small side window with 40 other people . . . There is far more exhilaration, fun and impression...
...external enemy, who can be blamed for exertions demanded and identified as the sponsor of anyone who dares challenge the regime. To renounce all this, to concede the U.N.'s right to talk of cease-fire or its right to meddle in "an internal affair," would be to abandon a useful and profitable objective...
Scruples & Swaps. Gingerly, the other ministers explored Nehru's views on Formosa. It was soon apparent that Nehru, with milder backing from Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala, simply thought that the U.S. should abandon the Nationalists. The others, with some individual variants, favored Eden's plan, which would swap the offshore islands and U.N. recognition of Red China for a cease-fire and Communist acceptance of a neutralized Formosa...