Word: armaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK DAILY NEWS: PRESIDENT Eisenhower uncorked Jone of the most sensational proposals ever made anywhere at any time. Said Ike, in effect: Let's you Commies and us Americans toss all our armament cards on the table, to examine at our leisure...
...necessary that we talk frankly about the concrete problems which create tension," Eisenhower said. "First is the problem of unifying Germany." Other problems the President stressed: Every nation's fear of international Communism's "alien domination"; the overriding problem of armament and how to ensure that "no frightful surprises" can befall any nation...
...Moral Re-Armament astonished Washington by the tone of a morality play called The Vanishing Island, which it is presenting in the Asian capitals. Commented one high U.S. official: "The show ridicules the ideals of the free West . . ." Freedom is portrayed as license and self-indulgence, freedom of the press as cynical reporting to attract readers, elections as a means to avoid responsibility, free enterprise as grasping for endless profits, and liberty as a meaningless chant. The official concluded that many Government officials were "unhappy about the Moral Re-Armament movement," but were afraid to speak out be cause...
...Moral Re-Armament, traditionally no friend of military enterprises such as the U.S. Air Force, will pay for its long ride after a fashion. The Air Force normally charges two rates for transport flights -one for governmental agencies, another for nongovernmental agencies. Moral Re-Armament will pay only the Government rate. Its check will amount to about $97,000, and U.S. taxpayers will pay the rest...
With somewhat more wisdom than he showed in "approving the project," Secretary Talbott last week said that he did not want to go into many details of Moral Re-Armament's half-price-loading, because "some other institution might want to take advantage . . . Once we start this sort of thing, everybody will be after...