Word: commit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, after a two-hour conference with Dwight Eisenhower and Loy Henderson, John Foster Dulles read out a statement, quoting the President, specifically warning Syria not to commit aggression or engage in "subversive activities directed toward the overthrow of the duly constituted governments" of her Arab neighbors. If Syria does this, warned the President of the U.S., she will face the military-economic force of the Eisenhower Doctrine...
Culinary Master. This man who bargained so confidently with the world had almost every day of his life to bargain with Stalin. Yet he talked freely, never seemed worried lest he commit an indiscretion, cracked irreverent jokes. In 1946 a group of leading officials were sitting in Mikoyan's dacha, a crenelated red brick atrocity created by a 19th century czarist sugar baron. Malenkov's wife began grumbling about how poor and scarce Soviet nylons were. Snapped Mikoyan: "Yes, my dear young lady, but we have plenty of portraits of Stalin...
...intricate situation that Henderson was exploring, President Eisenhower had set a diplomatic keynote that had a Loy Hendersonian ring. In taking up public positions on diplomatic items such as whether to call Syrian plotters "men of leftish leanings" or "Communists," said the President, the true diplomat should never commit himself irretrievably. "Always," he said, "give your enemy a line of retreat...
Russia too knew that it was a subtle game. In Damascus a Syrian spokesman began preparing the ground for a more modest view of the Russian commitment. Defense Minister El Azm, the official spokesman emphasized, had gone to Moscow very much on his own. Final agreement on Soviet aid to Syria, he added, has not been reached. Moscow left it up to Damascus to brag of how much the aid would be and was careful not to commit itself irrevocably...
WITHOUT LOVE, by Gerald Hanley (245 pp.; Harper; $3.50), has a theme that might be described as disgrace under pressure. Mike Brennan, the seedy son of a lace-curtain London-Irish family, is hanging around present-day Barcelona waiting to commit just one last political murder before he tells all to a priest. Like Britain's London-Irish William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), Brennan had fallen out of the church into Mosley's Blackshirts. Via the Nazi SS, he becomes, by double desertion, a journeyman executioner for Russia's secret police. Yet he is not a devoted...