Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wonham, bow; Daiger, 2; Parsons, 3; Rodgers, 4; Beck, 5; Conquest, 6; Ertell, 7; Whitney, stroke; Matthews, coxswain...
...Paris, Acheson should set new freedoms--in foreign policy, native economy, and government appointments--as conditions for U. S. aid to Viet Nam. Though a more independent Bao-Dai is no guarantee of a Viet Nam safe from Communist conquest, such independence is the best chance that France and the U. S. have to promote democracy in Indo-China. Without this autonomy, Viet Nam, Even with U. S. assistance, will remain easy prey for Indo-China's Communists...
...superior ideas are essential to the conquest and overthrow of superficial ones, then the new "Capitalist Manifesto" [TIME, Feb. 13] ... ought to be required reading for everyone, from the foreman and union steward on up to the policy-making committees. Organized labor resents the injustices of our present economic system, and expresses its dislike in strikes . . . Unless these work stoppages . . . can be dealt with through such democratic processes as joint consultations and open forum discussions, our nation will be deprived of the fruits of an expanding economy which it has every right to expect in view of past progress...
Desperate Struggle. What could the U.S. do in the meantime to make itself more secure? "Freedom is not expanded by conquest," said the President. "Democracy is not created by dictation ... In the long run, our security and the world's hopes for peace lie not in measures of defense or in the control of weapons, but in the growth and expansion of freedom and self-government." This might come, he said, through Point Four, the Administration's program for spreading democracy by aiding the underdeveloped areas of the world...
...regular churchgoers only from one to three. Much more important, he thinks, is that through him the greater part of the village has lost its hostility to the church and is increasingly dubious of Communist propaganda. A typical example of Mission de France work is Father Baudry's conquest of Lulu's bistro...