Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telegram was delivered to President Eisenhower just as he holed out on the 435-yd. first hole at the Newport Country Club. The President read it slowly. Press Secretary James Hagerty scratched an answer in pencil on the back of the telegram, handed it to the President. Ike changed a word or two, initialed the bottom: "DDE." The historic confrontation was arranged between the President of the U.S. and a governor of Arkansas who had wrought a lot more than he could handle...
What do people regard as the chief problem confronting the U.S. today? Pollster George Gallup asked the question across the country and got the same answer he had got ten years ago-staying out of the big war with Russia. Completed after the Soviet missile announcement and before the school-integration issue got into the headlines, the Gallup survey produced this box score of concerns...
...economic offensive in Eastern Europe. Their best bet is to establish friendly ties with Poland, and their best means is to abandon some of the German claims to what is now Polish territory. Should this ever come to pass, the Kremlin would be put on the spot-asked to answer why Russia was still hanging onto former Polish soil...
Through this damning factual indictment, Hungary's chief delegate, Peter Mod, sat impassively. Nor did he answer when the Uruguayan delegate asked him to explain his own "magic metamorphosis" from last October, when Mod himself led a Revolutionary Committee of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry that had demanded "liberation" and condemned Russia's "unwarranted interference...
Nehru's visit to Kashmir was meant to show that all Kashmir is delighted to be occupied by India. At Srinagar, Nehru set India's tone for the U.N. session: "The problem of Kashmir is: What right has Pakistan to be in this state? The answer to this problem is not a plebiscite." So much for Nehru's onetime promise to let the Kashmiris choose for themselves. Or, as Krishna Menon, seconding the boss, put it last week: "Our country has been invaded, and the invasion has to be vacated." Any talk of a U.N. force...