Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the end of the tour, on the gravel walk leading to Khrushchev's limousine, his hosts had set up a table stocked with California champagne and white and red wines. Nixon chose red wine, Khrushchev white. "A good wine," he said. Then he raised his glass and proposed a toast: "To the elimination of all military bases on foreign lands." Milton Eisenhower, who had not quite heard the translation, almost drank but stopped the goblet at his lips. The smile stayed on Nixon's face, but he did not raise his glass. "I am for peace...
Franklin to Theodore. Liberal Schlesinger has predictable contempt for the Eisenhower Administration ("The nation is at last coming out of the Eisenhower trance"), but, seeking a clue to the nature of the upcoming liberal wave, he chose a surprising point of reference. Democrats would do well, he wrote, to turn back, not to Franklin Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson for the answer, but to the turn of the century and Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican...
...Sukarno himself is less a strongman than a symbol. He must rule in partnership, and only two organizations-the army and the Communist Party-have the efficiency and administrative knack to help him govern. In naming his ten-man "inner" Cabinet last week, Sukarno clearly chose the army. Not a single post went to a Communist or a fellow traveler. Able ex-Premier Djuanda was named First Minister and Finance Minister. The army got two plums: the important Ministry of Security and Defense went to Army Commander Lieut. General A. Haris Nasution and the Production Ministry to Colonel Suprajogi...
...neutralist nations of Southeast Asia, Burma-which not only won its independence from Britain after World War II. but chose to leave the Commonwealth-was the most insistent on preserving its neutralist status. From 1953 on, Burma would not even accept free technical aid from the U.S., partly because it did not think the U.S. had done enough to make Nationalist China pull its guerrilla armies out of the Burma hills (they finally pulled the bulk...
From the 19th century, Mrs. Pardue chose Franck's B-minor Chorale, a slithering, amorphous, but colorful work...