Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Were we to turn away from the urgent present to assess the blame for the crises in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, we would name, in reverse order, England and France--for defying the United Nations while claiming to uphold it; Israel--for replying to Egyptian provocations with her own tragic and wrong aggression; Egypt--for aiding suicide squads to fill Israel with terror; the Soviet Union--for encouraging Nasser in his heady confidence of playing East against West to his own advantage; and most important of all--the United States, through its Secretary of State, for conceiving that...
...engages, and its operation directly affects the careers of millions of Americans, especially young men of draft age. On its proper management our survival depends. The questions of what weapons and how many men to use are highly technical and might seem too involved for the average voter to assess...
...other factors in the Lucy incident are harder to assess: the part played by the NAACP, and the effect of a large press corps. Next to the Communist Party, the NAACP is easily the most hated, and the most feared, organization among Alabamians. The average Southerner's conception of the NAACP is incredible to one who has not experienced it. Many sincerely feel that the organization is subversive, run by Communists, advocates miscegenation, and is solely responsible for the Supreme Court's May, 1954, decision...
While the Russians tried to assess the effect of their wooing, Indonesia's President moved amiably on to Belgrade, where persuasive Marshal Tito was on hand to match smiles and, it might be assumed, pass on his own experience at playing the East against the West...
...other factors in the Lucy incident are harder to assess: the part played by the NAACP, and the effect of a large press corps. Next to the Communist Party, the NAACP is easily the most hated, and the most feared, organization among Alabamians. The average Southerner's conception of the NAACP is incredible to one who has not experienced it. Many sincerely feel that the organization is subversive, run by Communists, advocates miscegenation, and is solely responsible for the Supreme Court's May, 1954, decision...