Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lunched with the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, at the Queen's suggestion ventured beyond protocol chitchat to talk foreign policy. He called on Winston Churchill, made a little news by disclosing that Churchill had been invited to visit Ike in Washington in May, and might accept. And that night in the 500-year-old Guildhall, where General Eisenhower made his famed 1945 victory speech, Nixon's trip hit a new high...
...Philip and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (after Ike, said Mac, Nixon was "the next best thing"). Then Nixon spoke on winning "the victory of plenty over want." Khrushchev, he said, has called for an economic contest between systems. "I am sure that all of us would be delighted to accept the challenge. In such a contest no one could really lose . . . We need to apply in this field the same determination, willingness, and cooperation which enabled us to build the military strength which deters aggression today...
...Berlin will not be intimidated," said Brandt. Without consulting anybody -or having to-Brandt made himself a spokesman for Berlin. Bouncing back from momentary dismay at Secretary Dulles' remark that the Allies might accept East German control officials as "agents" of the Russians, he cried: "We do not release our Allies from responsibility to defend Berlin with force." If the Allies soften their position, said Brandt, "the West will end up like an artichoke, stripped of its influence, leaf by leaf." Asked if West Berlin wanted to become a free state, he snapped: "Another Danzig? Never...
...papers deal pragmatically with each international crisis as it arises, refuse to accept the view that the U.S. is or can be in a dominant position. One major criterion for judging a policy: its anticipated effect on world opinion. This has sometimes led the Cowles brothers to argue that the U.S. may eventually lose more by taking a strong stand than by backing off a little under pressure...
...Dresser Inc. have similar policies, though they do not send out a formal letter. Former General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice did not go that far in laying down a rule of thumb to guide his people but he did send around a memo that no G.M. man should accept a gift he cannot eat, drink or smoke in one day. G.M. and many others still send gifts to valued customers and contacts, but they try to make the gifts useful, or at least personal-not the welter of ashtrays, cigarette lighters, wallets, swizzle sticks, canapes, pocket knives and glassware...