Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summing up on our loss of friends among nations of the world, TIME did not take the opportunity to call attention to the insensate despot that now rules the U.S., Russia, France and England. This despot is the H-bomb. Its power is so great that it can cause mutual destruction . . . I believe most Americans (except Senator Knowland, et al.) would regret very much to have this happen...
Like a fiery djinn, the hydrogen bomb hung over the House of Commons, shaping every speech, tingeing every mind. Reporting on his "diplomatic weekend" in Washington, Churchill admitted that the H-bomb had been the reason for it. He had been astonished and shocked at its devastating power. He had learned about it only last February from a speech by a U.S. Congressman...
...Guatemala Putsch. Attlee had other complaints. He wanted an immediate meeting with Malenkov on the hydrogen bomb-"It is no good putting this thing off." And he was incensed about Guatemala. "The fact is that this was a plain matter of aggression, and one cannot take one line on aggression in Asia and another line in Central America. I confess I was rather shocked at the joy and approval of the American Secretary of State at the success of this putsch . . . There was a principle involved, and that principle was the responsibility of the United Nations. I think...
...suggestion that they were basically anti-American. In the debate that followed, speaker after speaker from both sides emphasized the importance of U.S.-British alliance. Cried Laborite S. N. Evans roundly: "Do not let us forget that EDC and the American bases and NATO and the hydrogen bomb are not the causes of international tension: they are the end product, the inevitable consequence of Stalin's postwar madman's dream of a new Communist Roman Empire . . . Without American military and industrial strength . . . the U.N. organization would be dead; there would be no Geneva negotiations and there would...
...always regarded Anthony Eden as their enemy and the old imperialist Prime Minister as their secret friend. Had he not thundered that he would not preside at the liquidation of the Empire? Churchill sat back while his War Secretary, Antony Head, explained on a map why the H-bomb's destructive radius would make the base untenable in a major war. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler then got up to say that he was not prepared to continue spending ?50 million yearly to maintain the canal base as an imperial monument...