Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles into one of the most unfortunate remarks of the hearings. Morse, wringing his hands lest "American boys might have to go over there alone," suggested that Britain and France join the U.S. in backing the Eisenhower Middle Eastern resolution. Dulles replied softly: "I hope, before you commit yourself to that proposition, you will give careful consideration to the reception the British and French could get in the Middle East." Then, half-joking and still referring to the low esteem in which the Middle East holds Great Britain and France, Dulles added: "If I were an American...
...case for the need for foreign-aid flexibility in the Middle East, Dulles explained how present congressional restrictions on the spending of foreign aid would rob the President of the initiative that he sorely needs in the crisis. He emphasized that a vote for the Eisenhower plan would not commit any Congressman "for long-term...
This statistic may have been misleading. There are no zip gun wars here such as those in New York, and the crimes committed here are probably slightly less serious in nature. But the problem is simply this: a greater number of teenagers in this area seem to commit unlawful and anti-social acts than in any comparable area in the country...
...time escapee who suffered from an obsession that no one would ever trust him. Now a teacher of Spanish, he has apparently abandoned his plans of escape. t| A prisoner who was so depressed that he once tried to commit suicide began teaching mathematics, proved such a success that he is now also happily teaching physics...
Author Habe seeks to temper his anti-Americanism with organ-tone laments about history being bigger than both peoples and no nation being fit to judge another. Americans need not fear criticism, or insulate their consciences from an accounting of the wrongs the U.S. can and does commit. But this book does not really offer such an accounting. Instead, it offers Author Habe's strange verdict that the U.S., acting in good faith, has done more harm to Europe than the nation which, twice within a quarter-century, launched total...