Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there has grown between two great blocs of nations the division between what we roughly call the free world and the Communist world. There are some who feel that this struggle is necessarily fated to end either in war or by the triumph of revolutionary Communism. I believe that to be too pessimistic a judgment. Of course the free world must be firm as well as fair. We must not lower our guard. We must not fall victim to propaganda or to mere exhaustion. Nor must we delude ourselves by wishful thinking. We must not conceive of peace...
...Polaris-missile-toting nuclear submarine program. Last week the House of Representatives weighed next year's Administration defense appropriation request, in which there was money for five nuclear submarines but not one cent budgeted for a new carrier for the first time since 1951. Nevertheless, Navy plans still call for construction of two more Forrestals, for a total of six, plus two atomic-powered attack carriers...
...defense of its refusal to turn the area over to the Indonesians-who call it West Irian and claim it on the grounds that it was part of the old Netherlands East Indies-the Netherlands government has consistently argued that 1) Western New Guinea has no ethnic connection with Indonesia, 2) Indonesia has not yet proved able to govern what it has, and 3) the Dutch have a "sacred trust" to prepare the bushy-haired Papuans for self-government. By last week many a thoughtful Dutchman was disturbed by the publication of a report of a nine-man Dutch parliamentary...
Unanswered Call. According to the parliamentary visitors, the Papuans are not being prepared to take their place in the 20th century world. So far, said the report, the Netherlands government has had "no success" in setting up an educational system adapted to Papuan needs. "Where education is available at the village schools, the highest level attained is scarcely that of the third grade in Dutch elementary schools . . . About 5,000 children attend these village schools, and 5% of them are given the opportunity of enjoying further education . . . There is not yet a single Papuan with a high school diploma...
...minds of parents and the press an idea that education must return to the little red school house, the three R's, and the straightlaced New England discipline. Weekly, Time, the Saturday Evening Post and many other national magazines provide a forum for an older generation to call for the standards of "the old days...