Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late on the midnight Moscow radio news got a shock-the Russian broadcaster was saying: ". . . Truth can only be arrived at if there is freedom to hear different points of view . . . Many facts and views are withheld from you, and there is no freedom of speech and free access to knowledge of how the rest of the world lives and thinks . . . [Foreign] broadcasts to the Soviet Union [are] jammed by your government. I wonder why. What has your government to fear...
...international commission, not necessarily under U.N. (which the Reds maintain has no legal right in Korea), with unrestricted access to all of Korea to supervise the truce...
MacLean and Burgess had left London on May 25, were last definitely reported in Rennes, France, running to catch a train to Paris. MacLean was head of the Foreign Office's American section and both men had served in the British embassy in Washington; they had access to plenty of confidential information which the Russians would be glad to get. Last week, London's Whitehall buzzed with rumors that the British counter-espionage unit, M.I.-5, was putting all Foreign Service men through a new and tighter security check, looking for traces of Communist sympathies or of homosexuality...
Ordinarily, the two would not be in possession of top military secrets, but would have access to confidential information. If they were in fact working for the Russians, they could have got hold of a lot more. In Washington, Secretary of State Acheson agreed that their defection might be "quite a serious matter...
...fashion. It can maintain lightly armed armies on its own resources. With its arsenals (especially in Manchuria) unbombed and its overland supply lines to Russia open, it can probably prolong indefinitely the kind of war it is waging in Korea. But the U.N. embargo will deny Red China easy access to important warmaking materials, will burden her already strained industrial economy...