Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Landing in Washington, President Eisenhower turned his attention to another facet of Moscow relations-a personal note to Ike from Premier Bulganin calling on the U.S. to join with Russia in bringing H-bomb tests to a halt (but making no mention of the U.S. insistence on safeguards). Ike was nettled because Moscow had published the text before he had seen it. He was angry because Bulganin noted that "certain prominent public figures in the United States"-i.e., Adlai Stevenson -had proposed a plan to stop H-bomb tests. And the President characterized as "personally offensive to me" a charge...
...number of the nation's idealists, reformers and vocational do-gooders were still willing to beat a path to his door. Most of the grand designs got a polite brushoff. But one that caught Stevenson's eye was a proposal for the U.S. to halt its hydrogen-bomb tests. Over the months, Stevenson studied the proposition, deemed it worthy. Last April he advocated it publicly during his heated campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. After that he became so preoccupied with the subject that his staffers began griping because he was always closeted with "some scientists...
During his West Coast campaign trip (TIME, Oct. 22) Stevenson again struck for an end to U.S. H-bomb tests. Some what to his surprise, the proposal received enthusiastic applause. Thus encouraged, Stevenson's professionally intellectual, politically amateurish advisers pushed their advantage, urging him to make the H-bomb his top campaign issue. Arguing against them in a top-level Chicago conference was Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan, a tough-minded political pro. Finnegan finally gave in on the ground that the H-bomb was "a way of talking about peace"-and peace was an issue that Finnegan was distressed...
...hope that these sober facts will not become lost in the political hubbub of the present campaign. It is incumbent on both presidential candidates to admit that the danger of continued H-bomb testing may be much greater than has previously been pointed out, even by Mr. Stevenson. Mike Litt...
Monday's edition of the Harvard Democratic Review had claimed, under a head-line reading "ADLAI HERE OCT. 29; PROPOSES H-BOMB BAN," that "Unofficial, but highly placed sources have indicated that Stevenson will appear also in Cambridge during his visit...