Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your description of Frenchman Emmanuel's opinion of American students, I must comment that the exact same criticisms can be made of the French. If they are such damn good history students, they should realize that fraternization and placation of the Communists will accomplish nothing ... If ambivalent French politicians dally with the Reds any longer, and continue to block EBC, they will soon be aware of a new cultural heritage-Communist style. American students . . . can see the obvious...
...think we should turn to the question of how to accomplish our ends through methods which we can countenance, and which are not methods of force. I be lieve we are in a rut. We seem to have neglected the arts of diplomacy and negotiation. Let's concentrate less on atomic power. Keep it in the background. Let's not allow our ordinary military power to go down, but let's concentrate as we have never concentrated before on the ways by which we can regain the friendship of statesmen and people who have been drifting away...
Japan's pressing, problem, said the three governors, is self-support. "To accomplish this all-important economic necessity Japan must have access to resources and markets in Southeast Asia ... It is difficult for the free world to absorb the full output of a vigorous Japanese economy. Therefore, we recommend limited and controlled trade with Red China as well as increased trade between Japan and her non-Communist neighbors. The former must be so restricted and so regulated that it will help develop a program of self-subsistence for Japan and not build...
...said the President firmly, "much still remains [undone] that is of vital significance to every American citizen." Still pending: bills to accomplish a fairer distribution of the tax burden, broaden unemployment insurance and social security, improve housing conditions and strengthen the internal security net. Said the President, aiming at would-be security watchdogs on Capitol Hill: "Scarcely need I assure such an audience as this that I-and my every associate in Government-will keep everlastingly at the job of uprooting subversion wherever it may be found. My friends, I do not believe that I am egotistical when...
Recognition now would be a mistakes, Fairbank explained, because it would accomplish no good and would give the Communists a strong propaganda point...