Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ministers of France gathered one morning last week in the President's Elysée Palace to hear a crucial report from the Minister of Defense, just back from the Indo-China battle fronts. The military situation is not critical, reported René Pleven, but it is discouraging. The French Union forces cannot win decisively over the Communists, but they can keep the Communists from winning. Pleven's recommendation: hold on and try to negotiate an honorable settlement of the Indo-China...
...wheel of history came full circle last week. In Tokyo, the U.S. and Japan signed a mutual defense assistance agreement in which the U.S. undertakes to arm the nation it was fighting only nine years ago. The crucial clause: "The government of Japan . . . will make, consistent with the political and economic stability of Japan, the full contribution permitted by its manpower, resources, facilities, and general economic conditions to the development and maintenance of its own strength and the defensive strength of the free world...
...Elves, scours the earth to find a faithful couple. He finds a brave knight and his beloved who are shipwrecked escaping from Bagdad; she is captured by pirates, pursued by a sultan, rescued by her knight, and finally blessed by Charlemagne. Oberon, of course, turns up at every crucial moment to rescue his charges...
...politics as in warfare, the terrain of the battlefield is crucial. Unfortunately statehood bills must pass a chamber barricaded by a group of Southern Senators prepared to fight the admission of states which might send proponents of civil rights to Congress. In earlier years these Southerners have been able to win minority party support to combine the two statehood proposals into a single bill, and then use this twin measure as a target for filibustering...
Subjected to a drizzle of Communist strikes, tugged at by the angry orators of the extreme right and left, Premier Mario Scelba's coalition submitted last week to the first crucial test of its ability to stick together and govern Italy. The scene was the Senate, where the new Scelba Cabinet had to win its first confidence vote...