Word: binds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allies insist that a reunited Germany must be free to make or refuse to make alliances. West Germany is already a member of NATO. The West recognizes that Bonn's signature cannot bind a united Germany, but expects that a reunited Germany would prefer to join the West. If it does, both Britain and France are ready to "take account of the legitimate needs of Soviet security," even possibly to guarantee that an all-German army should be no larger than West Germany's proposed twelve divisions. The U.S. is considering an arrangement by which the Western half...
...chosen for his literary portrait. In Faithful are the Wounds, Miss Sarton neglects such precautions. The novel has, for people who have lived through the event she describes, all the impact and all the pain of a newspaper account or a contemporary history. But Miss Sarton does not bind herself to the accuracy such forms demand. She can swipe out at the living and make her blow felt, writing as she does half from fact and half from fancy. Such writing is not satisfying in literature, suspended as it is between responsibility and imagination. An author's choice of this...
...state governments, the capital of private foundations is meager. But there are legitimate areas of giving in which foundations can make a great contribution. While government action may be bound by considerations of public policy, foundations can often risk unpopularity by undertaking necessary research. Where popular complacency could bind government to inaction, studies by private groups like the Fund for the Republic can break down some of this complacency...
...Manhattan, the men of the U.N.Security Council listened gravely as Egypt demanded satisfaction for the "brutal aggression" in Israel's attack on Gaza, in which 38 Egyptians were killed. Israel's Abba Eban retorted that his country was prepared to bind itself to "an assurance that if no hostile act is carried out by Egypt against Israel, then no hostile act of any kind will be carried out by Israel against Egypt...
...lunch lasted two hours. Chiang, pointing out the difficulty of maintaining morale on Formosa in the face of retreat from the islands, asked for a specific commitment on Quemoy and the Matsus. Dulles refused; the treaty, he said, does not bind the U.S. to defend the islands. Are there any conditions under which the U.S. would defend them? asked Chiang. Possibly, replied Dulles. If President Eisenhower were to conclude that the islands are essential to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, then they might be defended. Chiang was bitterly disappointed and did not bother to see Dulles...