Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would, of course, have no alternative but to retaliate in kind. But we have no way of knowing whether they would actually do so. It would certainly be in their interest as well as ours to try to limit the terrible consequences of a nuclear exchange. Whether they would accept it [the alternative of trying to win without striking cities] in the crisis of a global nuclear war, no one can say. Considering what is at stake, we believe it is worth the additional effort on our part to have this option...
...force de frappe. 'We have our own, too,' he told me. 'We should try to associate them in a European framework independent of America.' On this, he left me for the Bahamas." There, according to De Gaulle, Macmillan betrayed him by agreeing instead to accept Polaris force from the U.S. and then to commit it, along with Britain's own new nuclear bombers, to a multinational NATO nuclear force. Shrugging that this "naturally changed the tone" of the Jan. 14 press conference at which De Gaulle gutted Britain's hopes of joining Europe...
...Munich newspaper, Ludwig declared his willingness to take over right now. "I would be ready to accept a call to the chancellorship if my party and the Bundestag so decided," he announced, clearly hoping that others felt as he did. After all, many of West Germany's restive politicians had been grumbling over Charles de Gaulle's courtship of der Alte, wondering whether the price of Germany's new friendship treaty with France was an unacceptable subservience to France, and whether it required siding with the French against both Britain...
...even the alternative of opposition politics will soon be eliminated. "There will be a terrible era of bloodshed in which neither side can win." Suzman writes, "and the country will polarize into White and Black, with room for nobody in the middle." Since "even now many Africans will not accept white help in their struggle," the only possible course for Jews who oppose the regime must be flight. Suzman concludes "I think that soon the highly exportable Jew will again be packing, with the more liberal element packing first...
...white man to approach the Negro with no consciousness of color is, I believe, a great mistake. For this is an invitation, to the white man to avoid the conflicts of the racial problem altogether--an invitation which he has shown himself quite anxious to accept. The white man would very much like to believe your statement that the so-called Negro Problem has nothing to do with color. But in fact it has everything to do with color, and he cannot escape this fact. His real problem, however, is that he sees in terms of black or white, instead...