Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association [TIME, Jan. 4, 1954]. I have never been convicted of any crime and resent your reference to me in this manner. It is incumbent upon publishers of magazines and newspapers to report true facts. I am sure that you will be glad to correct this grievous error...
...leaders would step forward to negotiate. It did not. Labor Party leaders now insisted that Makarios must be brought back and a settlement negotiated. In a letter to the London Observer, Elder Statesman Earl Attlee wrote: "I believe that the government now realize that they have made a grave error in deporting the Archbishop, but will not admit it ... Any reading of history would have told the government that when discussions on constitutional reform break down, and when the accredited leaders of a nationalist movement are deported or imprisoned, the result is always a resort to violence. Leadership passes...
...Each His Own. In Edinburgh, Scotland, the National Bible Society, citing an error in translation of the Lord's Prayer in the Negro republic of Liberia, said that the phrase, "Lead us not into temptation," was interpreted by Christians there as "Do not catch us when...
Appalling Error. While Adenauer lay in his bed for seven weeks, more seriously ill than most people knew, Molotov at the second Geneva conference convinced thousands of West Germans that reunification was a gift to be bestowed by one power-the Soviet Union-and on its conditions. The failure of positions of strength to win East Germany back led some Germans to ask why they should waste time, money and manpower in rearming. Why rearm if there "ain't gonna be no war"? Almost immediately there began a widespread search for ways to circumvent Germany's pledges...
...second-largest party in Adenauer's coalition, demanded "a German foreign policy" and bilateral negotiations with the Russians, Adenauer on his sickbed could not contain himself. He dashed off a letter demanding that Dehler recant and swear allegiance to Adenauer's policy. It was an appalling political error, the first sign that the sick old man was losing his legendary political instinct. Dehler had been slipping, but faced with such a humiliating ultimatum, a majority of his party rallied to him, and deserted the coalition. Adenauer's once-massive 334-vote majority shrank...