Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authors of a letter published on November 10th suppose 1) that we could intervene in Hungary 10th suppose 1) that we could intervene in Hungary without precipitating World War III, and 2) that the peoples of Eastern Europe would welcome the United States as a liberator. Both suppositions are unwarranted...
...invasion of Eastern Europe could not even accomplish the liberation of Hungary. We have little reason to believe that the peoples of Eastern Europe want to be liberated by foreign invaders. Their grievences are severe, but even Poland and Yugoslavia show no inclination to overthrow communism or break with Russia. We must not let the tragic course of events in Hungary deceive us. Bloodshed has its own momentum, and forces the participants to extreme positions. The Hungarian rebellion did not begin as an effort to overthrow Communist and Soviet domination, and we cannot suppose that such intensity of feeling exists...
...week's end Syrian forces in brigade strength moved over the border into eastern Jordan, and Baghdad announced that Iraqi armored elements were also on their way into Jordan. The presumption was that they were there to help Jordan defend itself against an Israeli invasion, although their presence might also give Israel the pretext for invading Jordan. By expanding eastward to the Jordan River, Israel could, at Jordan's expense, straighten out its borders (at one point only seven miles wide). That would leave Jordan with a wide stretch of desert, and not much to live...
...years of his captivity, his uneasy jailers had moved him from prison to prison to mislead possible rescuers. He was guarded by a cordon of political policemen, policewomen, police dogs and, lately, Russian tanks. During those years, the Communists strove with all their might to destroy the faith of Eastern Europe's 60 million Catholics. As Mindszenty went free, their failure was obvious to the world: the Church of Silence now spoke out with undimmed vigor...
...they operate. To keep up with a complex and fast-changing economy, they know they must have more managerial training and executive talent. Says Herbert Barchoff, member of the Small Business Administration's national advisory council and president of Manhattan's $4,000,000-a-year Eastern Rolling Mills: "The day has passed when a seat-of-the-pants entrepreneur, by gumption and ingenuity, could build a fair-sized business...