Word: accords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet proposal was a spectacular playon the eve of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden's trip to Washington-for a deal between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., a nightmare prospect for the U.S.'s allies in both Europe and Asia. (In 1954 Russia proposed an all-European accord that would have excluded the U.S. from Eu rope.) Bulganin doubtless hoped it would reinstate him in his favorite propaganda role of peacemaker. Eisenhower's skillful, moderate reply not only exposed the hollowness of the Russian plea but clearly implied that the real hope of settling the cold...
...permanent success. There are 3,000 languages in current use, he points out, and it is ridiculous to assume that any one tongue, necessarily based on one culture, can be imposed on the world. Only in a one-culture world will any language become supra-national of its own accord, and such a situation does not exist today. The Soviet Union is currently waging a successful campaign to teach Russian to every one in the USSR--there are about 100 different languages spoken--but it is accomplishing this only through force...
...proposal by the three powers does not accord with the demands of the creation of effective European security, and . . . would make the situation in Europe even more aggravated."-We can't think of a good reason to reject it, but we reject it anyway...
...feel certain that a national vote on this question would not be in accord with the court's ruling...
...Dear Dick," it began. "I hope you will continue to have meetings of the National Security Council and of the Cabinet over which you will preside in accord with the procedure which you have followed at my request in the past during my absence from Washington. As ever, Dwight D. Eisenhower." Some of Nixon's detractors took a long reach and said this was merely the President's way of keeping Nixon in his place. But two days later there was another announcement from Denver: the President had called the Vice President to a bedside conference...