Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, May 1--President Eisenhower called today for financial sacrifices in the struggle for peace, and there were signs he might go to the public with direct appeals in behalf of his $71,800,000,000 budget...
...Administration came into office, a spike-haired young man named Robert Walter Scott McLeod clattered through the marble corridors of the State Department like a broncobuster. A onetime (1942-49) FBI agent and former administrative assistant to New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, McLeod was brought in to direct the State Department's security "cleanup" program, and he quickly kicked up a dust that never quite settled. Last week the dust blew and the epithets flew anew as President Eisenhower nominated Scott McLeod to be U.S. Ambassador to Ireland...
...relationships. Liberal Frenchmen have called him "our final card in North Africa"-though the fact of the matter is that if the French do not make an end to the bloody war in adjoining Algeria, none of their cards will be worth much. The U.S.'s interest is direct: it has a naval air station and four SAC air bases in Morocco from which, in case of war, bombers could command the Mediterranean and reach Russia itself...
...never conquered. While medieval Europe fought and languished, the university of Fez gathered scholars from all over the known world. The Moorish empire reached into Spain, building aqueducts, huge irrigation systems, and the great Alhambra at Granada. The present Sultan is of a dynasty founded in 1660, claims direct descent from the Prophet's only daughter, Fatima. This gives him baraka, the spiritual quality that makes it lucky just to kiss his garments and gives him special title to spiritual (as well as temporal) leadership of his people...
Explains Denis Martin: handshaking across the sea is not enough; brotherhood between peoples is achieved only through painfully acquired understanding. "There must be direct contact between peoples so that their differences can be seen and the truth understood," he says. "East and West today live cut off from each other. We must know the truth, and by knowing it we will have love for each other...