Word: default
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American foreign policy has had a tendency to do. But despite his failings, no other responsible leader aside from Diem has so far emerged in South Viet Nam. Unless the Western powers are willing to let the country disintegrate politically and fall to the Communists in the north by default, they seem to have little choice but to support the present nationalist government. After all, can France really believe that Ho Chi Minh will be any more pro-French than Premier Diem...
...Communists can finally capture, by default, the loyalty of the overseas Chinese, they will have been presented with the largest fifth column in world history...
...indifferent tranquillity would be fine if there were no injustices to be redressed, no problems of poverty and inequality, no stultifying complex of restrictive and anachronistic business practices that need to be put right, and no deteriorating situation in North Africa. The system "works" because France has chosen to default on its proper place in the world...
...Pruett (167) won by default when Tech's Erickson injured his side, and Jim Busch (unlimited) met no opposition. Fred Kullman (137) and Charlie Eaton (177) pinned, while Luke Marbury (147), Joe Goodman (157), and Tom Myers (123) took decisions...
...week's end, code machines chattered as the diplomats took counsel. There was little enthusiasm for an Indonesian proposal that the Colombo powers mediate (too clumsy) or for another Geneva-type conference (the U.S. disapproved). By default, hopes centered on Jawaharlal Nehru. The question was whether his intervention would do more harm than good. He was insisting that Red China's ultimate right to Formosa must be recognized first, but had reportedly conceded, at the urging of Commonwealth colleagues, that Formosa might be granted 20 years of interim independence under a U.N. mandate. Vastly relishing his role, Nehru...