Word: defend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectuals to devise programs enabling us to compete in the industrialization of the underdeveloped countries of the World. Industrialization is the master theme of our time, but we have failed to export our capitalistic system to Africa and Asia. Moreover, he warns, "the continued attempt by the U.S.A. to defend the economic and political status quo of today will...
...Brandt. Without consulting anybody -or having to-Brandt made himself a spokesman for Berlin. Bouncing back from momentary dismay at Secretary Dulles' remark that the Allies might accept East German control officials as "agents" of the Russians, he cried: "We do not release our Allies from responsibility to defend Berlin with force." If the Allies soften their position, said Brandt, "the West will end up like an artichoke, stripped of its influence, leaf by leaf." Asked if West Berlin wanted to become a free state, he snapped: "Another Danzig? Never...
When Washington declared that it would defend West Berlin as if it were U.S. soil, Pravda jeered that "the creation of a war psychosis" could not keep the peace-loving Soviet Union from unselfishly handing over its control of the Allied traffic to West Berlin to its puppet government. A six-man Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to arrange take-over details. "Once again the eyes of the world are upon us," tough Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt (see box) told West Berlin's Parliament. "We have no weapons, but we have a right to live...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles asserted yesterday that the Western powers will act with unity and firmness to defend West Berlin against Communist threats...
...talks in Geneva, Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore, member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, formally recommended to the President that the U.S. continue tests of small-yield nuclear weapons underground and of nuclear weapons in outer space, e.g., antiaircraft or future antimissile-missile warheads to defend U.S. cities. The Communists, said Gore, are "insincere." And the U.S., if it keeps up its present line at Geneva, is in danger of getting "mousetrapped...