Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party bloc" fallacy. Your article is so contrived as to make the average reader believe I am in favor of a one-party system, i.e., of some fascist state. On the contrary, I am on record as having stated or written many times (e.g., in the February issue of the Paris Revue des Deux-Mondes) that France cannot expect to have less than five or six parties. What I did was to lead some splinter parties which had exactly the same basic ideas to merge into a single organization, which surely is no crime against democracy...
...board chairman of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., Symington is viewed benignly by businessmen. His close personal and political friends range from Convair Vice President Tom Lanphier to the Electrical Workers' President Jim Carey. He has stood consistently with the Senate's liberal civil rights bloc; yet he has somehow managed to keep in the good graces of the South...
...production by "about" 1970. By that time, boasted Nikita in "theses" outlining the plan that his Central Committee will present to the 21st Communist Party Congress next January, the Soviet people "will be assured the world's highest standard of living." By 1965, cried Khrushchev, the Communist bloc countries will bt producing more than half the world's output...
Because of the presently stalemated fragility, the proposals to form a united neutral Germany, and perhaps a neutral Central European bloc, have been voiced with increasing frequency. These proposals are predicated on what appears to be the reasonable belief that although Russia would like to communize Europe, allied strength will dissuade her from taking any step which would result in annihilation. The United States nuclear arsenal would guarantee the buffer region...
...intolerable. The territorial status quo has been preserved for a decade, and meanwhile an apparently healthy integration of the German Federal Republic into Western Europe is now taking place. This may prove to be one of the most significant transitions of the era. Any Central European bloc would interrupt this integration. The Common Market, the Euratom plan and any further developments would be curtailed. The unification of Germany ought not to tear away the Federal Republic formally from the West until the cultural and economic ties have thoroughly permeated...