Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from the segregation conflict, the most important Constitutional controversy now in progress involves the question of determining Presidential disability. President Eisenhower has demonstrated as intense an interest in the question as he has shown for almost any other issue of his second term...
...event, and the do-nothings, whose faith in the ingenuity of the Founding Fathers covers not only what these gentlemn put into th Constitution, but what they left out. This second group is headed by Sam Rayburn, whose intention to kill any disability legislation may make the present conflict somewhat academic...
...difficulties compounded by the Suez invasion. In an attempt to lower taxes, the government plans to halve military manpower by 1960 and eliminate the draft by withdrawing troops from Libya, Korea, and Germany in particular. The government views its present program, undertaken in 1950 under the pressure of Korean conflict, as ill-adapted to the present need for long-range planning. Prime Minister Macmillan argues, further, that an economically burdened England could never be the defensive force the free world expects; hence he asserts "more punch for the pound" through powerful deterrents is the British answer to economic and military...
...depicted episodes of Rommel's career only demonstrate the stern yet cavalier character the public expects in a military hero, and leave his brilliance unsung. They are held together by the conflict between his professional conscience and personal consciousness. Rommel, who believed, "My function in life...to carry out the orders of my superiors," comes to realize that Hitler is a madman whose meddling can only bring disaster to the Wehrmacht. His private doubts eventually undermine the traditional sense of duty of his caste when he sees that obedience is forcing him to violate the proud...
...apparently trying to go over to the attack. It has decided, said Bulganin, to "strengthen most decisively the Warsaw Pact, whether the imperialists like it or not." The Soviet news agency Tass warned that "a new aggression against Egypt" would create "the direct threat of a broad military conflict." In Moscow last week, Hungarian Puppet Premier Janos Kadar reached an agreement to "strengthen the punitive side of the proletarian dictatorship" in Hungary. It was a decidedly truculent face the Russians had turned to the rest of the world...