Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts were something else: 1) the proposal of a heads-of-states meeting under the auspices of the U.N. was a Western proposal, in answer to Khrushchev's wild offer of a Big-Five summit meeting in Geneva, was carefully worked out by the President, Secretary of State Dulles and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan; 2) the deployment of U.S. forces to Lebanon to protect a small government against threats of subversion was being accepted in the Middle East as the most significant display of Western strength and determination since Korea; 3) U.S. policies over the last...
...Dilemma. Confronted with that cry, Eisenhower & Co. had to find an answer that did not say yes and did not say no. To say yes would be to undercut the United Nations, upset U.S. efforts to ease the Lebanon crisis by getting U.N. forces to replace U.S. troops. To say no would be to invite-unnecessarily-the duckings of the neutralist world and-more important-to strain the home-front political position of that valuable ally, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, already under considerable to-the-summit pressure from Laborites. In talks with Dulles, Britain's Foreign...
Cashing In. Britain's "Yes-at the U.N." reply to Khrushchev was different only in emphasis from the joint line Dulles and Lloyd had earlier agreed upon: the British accented the mutual willingness to talk; the U.S. emphasized the qualifications. Britain's answer, phrased with the terse and straightforward authority of Macmillan's personal voice, overnight united all British parties behind the government and gave it such a popular boost that some gloating Tories began talking of a snap national election to cash in ("We are riding the crest of the wave"). But Macmillan, who can resist...
That afternoon the crowd swelled to a well-drilled 30,000 in front of the national palace, yelling: "Death to Castro León!" Castro León and 100 officers debated through the night at the Defense Ministry and made their decision: to answer the insults with a coup would cost thousands of lives. Castro León resigned. But the explosive issue is far from settled. The Communists are growing stronger by the day and will try desperately for some form of Popular Front victory in the elections. If they succeed, the military will probably start plotting...
...Time to Love and a Time to Die (Universal-International) is an earnest pussyfooter, a film that timidly asks an important question and then cuts out its own tongue to avoid an answer. Taken from the paperweight novel by Erich Maria Remarque, A Time to Love flirts with a clutch of social issues-man's frequently contradictory loyalties to self, nation and fellow man-without ever coming to grips with any of them...