Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Minh armies had the military capability to crush the French completely and take over the whole of Vietnam, North and South. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, there was little doubt the Viet Minh had complete and unconditional victory within its grasp. The French would have to accept whatever terms the Viet Minh decided to offer. But at the Geneva truce negotiations the Viet Minh delegation made concessions to France and the West that were surprisingly great, considering their advantageous military position. Although the Viet Minh had originally demanded the 11th parallel as provisional dividing line between...
...anyone's heart. The French may have been defeated, but the threat of American intervention in the event of complete French capitulation was enough to prompt the Soviet Union, newly embarked on a somewhat peaceful line in foreign policy, to urge Ho chi Minh, the Viet Minh leader, to accept a compromise with the West. Actually it is unlikely that the United States would have entered the conflict in any event. With the Korean war only recently over, America was in no mood for another long, drawn out campaign. Despite John Foster Dulles's intimations of intervention, several prominant American...
Much room for movement is open to North Vietnam in the Sino-Soviet dispute. And the regime has by no means committed itself to either side. There may even be an opportunity for Western influence here. North Vietnamese officials have hinted that the country might accept aid from the U.S. "with no strings attached." This is a far cry from Communist China's relentless barrage against anything to do with America...
...scene, handed the U.S. a position paper proposing that a "free city" of West Berlin (same old entree) and the access routes be supervised by an international authority. Right there with it was the old demand that the Western powers withdraw their forces from the city and accept the sovereignty of the East Germans. Rusk instantly rejected the proposal. The U.S. had made it clear to Russia, both at Geneva and before, that the U.S. is in Berlin to stay, and will go to war rather than be pushed...
Lakoff then noted the immense problem of conducting a foreign policy in an open society. He suggested that students today "must accept a surrogate to democracy" in this area in the form of debate within the executive branch of the government itself. There is no reason to believe the Administration is approaching anything monolithic, Lakoff said...