Word: creating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department. The booklet tells the tourist that everywhere he goes on the Continent he will be regarded as an emissary of this country, "an unofficial ambassador" as they say. While designed to make the tourist's stay a pleasanter one, the pamphlet tends to creat moody paranoids out of harmless school-teachers and graduates of progressive high schools. Feeling that the results of the Geneva Conference may be undone by a single misunderstanding, they tiptoe through Europe with Doom snapping at their heels...
...insist on putting a stop to the loose talk and erratic behavior that has marked the conduct of our foreign affairs these past three years and that has confused our purposes and frightened our friends if not our enemies. I mean creat ing or encouraging the illusion that all is well, or at least better, that miracles happened at Geneva last summer, that peace and security are around the corner like some other Republican blessings I can think of. Well, the fact is that our foreign affairs are not prospering any more than agriculture is prospering. The fact is that...