Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. (pop. 208 million) its broadest measure of liberty and prosperity since the Bolshevik Revolution. Khrushchev's intentions in the U.S. are just as enigmatic. Is he seeking a genuine thaw in the cold war that might lead to forms of peace? Is he seeking an American acceptance of the status quo of Communist conquests, a softening-up of American will? Is he trying to shore up his own status in Communism's labyrinthine society, and if so against whom-against an aggressive Communist China, against restless captive peoples, against hostile Kremlin cliques? Is the sum of Khrushchev...
...weakness; no principle or fundamental interest will be placed upon any auction block." Then the President, a modest man whose strength lies in the fact that he is not enigmatic but is widely and deeply understood, set forth the face of the future as the U.S. sees it. "Fellow Americans," the President said, "we venerate more widely than any other document, except only the Bible, the American Declaration of Independence. It stands enshrined today as a charter of human liberty and dignity. Until these things belong to every living person, their pursuit is an unfinished business...
...AFFAIRS) and foreign correspondent. U.S. foreign policy, writes Ways in Beyond Survival (Harper; $4), is headed for a dead end. It is probably doomed to lose ground to the Communists in the realms of politics, economics and military affairs. The fault lies not with the policymakers but with the American people, because the U.S. has no wide-ranging sense of purpose...
...three straight general elections without coalition support, but there was little doubt that Macmillan, a master of political maneuver, had chosen the top psychological moment. The Tories' Suez fiasco and its architect, Sir Anthony Eden, were fading into oblivion; the Macmillan government was basking in the new Anglo-American warmth generated by President Eisenhower's triumphal tour. Even the Queen's prospective baby and the sensationally brilliant summer seemed to count in the government's favor. Macmillan, complained Labor Party Chairman Barbara Castle, was "rushing to the country in a suntan election to mobilize the heat...
...Consul in Izmir Donald B. Eddy publicly pooh-poohed reports that two of the sergeants had been tortured into making confessions. Informed that a senior U.S. officer in the NATO command had supported the brutality charges, Eddy firmly informed newsmen: "In my opinion it is impossible for a responsible American officer to make such a statement." Last week the Izmir public prosecutor's office formally charged Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin and Policeman Ilhan Suyolcu with mistreating the protesting sergeants during and after their arrest...