Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary Herter took over at a time when the world looked to the U.S. for direction in the compounded crises of Berlin, Tibet, Iraq, and at a time of a rising tide of weariness with cold war that might lead the Communists to miscalculate the free world's resolution. He had no need to, and probably would not, follow the precise pattern of Dulles policies; but as long as there was a cold war to fight, he could take a guideline from the London Observer's appraisal of Foster Dulles: "We have come to appreciate how enormously important...
Representatives from Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, and M.I.T. will participate in a two-day mock Summit meeting on the Berlin crisis today and tomorrow at M.I.T. This "political game" has been going for a month, during which the teams have been exchanging diplomatic notes in preparation for the conference...
...most Englishmen, Berlin is a piece of real estate inhabited by people whom it will take the British a long time to learn to love. When pollsters asked Britons if they would fight for Berlin, a thumping 74% said no (but 54% were convinced that Russia would not fight over Berlin, either). Presumably no German, Frenchman or American is any more eager than the Briton to be annihilated, but others were not making so much of the dangers, as justification for a need to reach agreements with Khrushchev...
...speaking simple truth when he angrily denies he is an appeaser, and insists that he has no intention of surrendering vital Western positions to Russia. But he is readier than others to meet Khrushchev's demand for a de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, provided that West Berlin's freedom is preserved. And the fact remains that Britain, more than any other Western power, is convinced that its hopes for the future rest on early termination of the cold...
...onetime Berlin lawyer who now teaches piano, Previn arrived in the U.S. when he was nine, studied piano in high school, was hired, even before he graduated, by M-G-M to arrange the boogie-woogie pieces for Jose Iturbi's Holiday in Mexico. Lately, Previn has been feeling the burdens of age, sharpened by a desire to compose more serious music: "You can't write it in Hollywood. I've had ten years there, and I don't want to look back at myself on my 50th birthday and know I haven't tried...