Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three times the U.S. was on the point of announcing that it would defend Quemoy and Matsu, but at the last moment Dwight Eisenhower, to soothe British fears, vetoed it. He thought U.S. intentions were already clear enough "to make certain that no conflict occurs through mistaken calculations on the other side . . . We have been as exact as it seems possible...
...hilt if the threat to Formosa is a mere vainglorious maneuver, intended to extract some other concession from the West. In fact, if Washington and Taipeh are right about the real Communist intentions, you have to conclude that Chou En-lai is a mere boastful muddler. Such is the conflict of evidence. It is an even bet either way for this year. But a Communist grab for Formosa is a virtual certainty next year or the year after that if we do not strengthen our shockingly weakened defenses on this side of the Pacific and if we fail to find...
...suppression of disagreement by the Russian state will lead to intellectual stagnation, for science is dependent upon e-examination of what is known and conflict and cooperation among scientists. he continued...
...formally asked for a meeting of the Security Council to discuss the threat to peace in the Formosa Straits. And in his constituency at Warwick, Eden spelled out more of what he had in mind. The Communist Chinese "must not think that because they have been in conflict with the United Nations about Korea that the intention is to ask them to give up what they regard as their rights...
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:--Teddy Roosevelt charges up San Juan Hill in Harvard 2, under the watchful eye of Ernest May, as the United States emerges from isolationism to fight the Spanish American War. History 164b traces the history of American foreign policy right up to the conflict in the Formosa Straits...