Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, plus Communist gains and American blunders since then, has to be shouldered. But neither Americans nor their allies can ignore the fact that $74 billion is $480 for every man, woman & child in the U.S. As Winston Churchill might put it: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many...
...colonel continued his analysis, based on G-2 estimates: "[In May] the Chinese were driven back in confusion all along the front, losing over 100,000 dead [in] their most disastrous defeat since they entered the Korean conflict last November, and at least four Chinese armies . . . lost their combat effectiveness . . . Acting in entire good faith . . . the U.N. accepted arrangements to explore the terms for negotiating a settlement . . . [when] we had [the enemy] just about hanging on the ropes . . . Since the peace proposal, however, the enemy has moved into the battle area a far greater quantity of supplies than he needs...
...Indian troops are on the border, said Nehru, because "there may develop a threat to Indian security." He added flatly that "in all matters affecting Pakistan relations, India's stand has been right and Pakistan's has been wrong." However, Indian "security arrangements" may prevent armed conflict. "India is fully prepared to meet any challenge . . . If we are ready, the attack may not develop...
...people, the Koreans, blame both the United States and Russia for the existing conflict in our country," stated Han Young Rim at an interview yesterday. Rim, an education graduate student at Columbia University for the past three years, is attending the Summer School on a scholarship...
...entertained by what I like to think of as the "typical" American...the sort of person you cannot help liking in spite of misgivings. Very friendly, no visible inhibitions, and above all, dynamic and energetic. (I read an article yesterday--"Are Americans Losing their Dynamism"; there was a conflict of opinion.) While in this state, one man informed me that "the Southerners have traditions which the North hasn't and it's useless for the North to impose its views on the South." In this connection, Mrs. Roosevelt's name was not very popular...