Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's troubles in Eastern Europe provided the first great test of the "liberation policy" advocated by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. At various times since 1950, Dulles has said...
...Refuse to abide by the truce, and attack the Communists. Clark is already considering a redeployment of front-line units so that the eastern two-thirds of the line will be solidly held by ROKs, the western one-third-guarding the approaches to Seoul-by non-Koreans. Without U.N. air support, ammunition, fuel and tactical advice, the ROKs would have little sustained offensive strength. Their only hope is that the U.N. forces would sooner or later have to get involved in the battle too, if only to preserve their own flanks...
...TIME from West Berlin by taping them under the seats of railway carriages. After reading, we gave them away for nothing because we wanted other men to know the situation in the free world ... It is necessary that people in the U.S. should understand the difficulty people in the eastern slave states have in getting news of the outside world...
...attentively to scores of political and business leaders. In Venezuela, where everybody from President Marcos Perez Jimenez down told him that they hoped Congress would not cripple their $2.5 billion oil industry by restricting petroleum imports, he also managed to get away for a jeepback tour of the vast eastern ore fields from which Bethlehem and U.S. Steel hope some day to draw much of the U.S.'s iron-ore supply...
Died. Ernest Ivison Pugmire, 65, national commander of the Salvation Army since 1944 (TIME, Dec. 26, 1949); of a heart attack on the street not far from the army's headquarters in Manhattan. A devoted, efficient administrator, Pugmire rose through the ranks to head first the U.S. Eastern Territory, then all 225,000 Salvation Army members in the U.S. Nominated to lead the worldwide organization in 1946, Old Campaigner Pugmire turned down the offer because of an ailing heart, continued to direct the annual spending of more than $18 million to uplift America's wayward and comfort...