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...turn. Said Murray: "It is no secret that our atomic weapons program depends upon the receipt of substantial quantities of uranium from foreign nations. These friendly nations .. . are banking on the United States ... to help them build their nuclear power plants of the future. I believe that unless we embark on an all-out attack on our nuclear power program immediately, we may be deprived of foreign uranium ores...
...General' Sherman was even more explicit in a letter to James G Elaine: "... I would account myself a fool, a madman, an ass, to embark now, at 65 years of age, in a career that may at any moment become tempestuous...
...unify Korea by force against South Korea." A fortnight ago, President Eisenhower used a somewhat similar argument to dissuade Syngman Rhee from going it alone. Said the President: "It was indeed a crime that [North Korea] invoked violence to unite Korea. But I urge that your country not embark upon a similar course...
...Each member state must bind itself not to embark on military adventures in Europe without prior consent of all the others...
Just before 8 o'clock one morning last week, Ike Eisenhower drove up to a sleek DC-6B at Denver's Stapleton Airport, to embark on his long-promised big drive for the presidency. At Ike's insistence ("This is one thing I'm odd about"), the 20 members of his staff and 30 newsmen climbed aboard the plane first.* Then Ike swung through the door and the "Eisenhower Special" was off to Boise, Idaho...