Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These British!" Despite Harold Macmillan's insistence-a correct one-that he had been one of the few British politicians to oppose the Munich deal with Hitler and was not advocating appeasement now, most of Britain's partners continued to cherish a surprisingly strong suspicion that Britain is "wobbly" over Berlin. There were shrugging Italian references to "perfidious Albion," and open questioning in France and Germany of Britain's staunchness. Charles de Gaulle flatly declared that disengagement would be disastrous unless it involved "a zone that is as near to the Urals as to the Atlantic. Otherwise...
...help from it. Red repression in Lhasa coulu be even more brutal than in Budapest-for who would know what had been done? The single radio signal that intermittently flashes out to New Delhi from the Indian consulate in Lhasa was very weak, and its report was cautious and correct...
Macmillan, about to leave for his talks with Eisenhower, was in a confident, combative mood. Previously he had been guardedly correct about Suez; now, to thundering Tory backbench cheers, he declared: "I was one of Sir Anthony Eden's main supporters in his Suez policy. I am proud of it." He was "surprised" that Gaitskell should bring up the subject: "If everybody were to see again those hysterical broadcasts of his, they would have a shock." Sarcastically he taunted: "The Opposition's chief idea in a difficulty is to run away from it. The ostrich...
...service, noted a new theory, put forward by Physicist E. A. Martell of the Air Force's Cambridge, Mass. research center, that radioactive debris from nuclear explosions near the poles drifts down to the earth much faster than fallout from explosions near the equator. If the theory is correct, strontium 90 and other harmful isotopes from Soviet tests in October will sprinkle the earth heavily during the next several months...
...order to keep the record straight, I should like to correct the figures on withdrawals from the College attributed to me in a story which appeared in the CRIMSON on March 14th. The increase in withdrawals from the College for all reasons (forced and voluntary) in the last two years was only one-half of one per cent. The considerable increase to which I called special attention in my annual report for 1957-58 was only in the two related sub-categories of voluntary withdrawals labelled as for "personal" and "medical" reasons, which rose from...