Word: existed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations is to become a place where we can properly attempt to resolve our problems with other nations, then I think it is high time that the U.S. stop trying to solve the Red China problem by pretending that Red China doesn't exist.'There is no question that Red China should be represented in the U.N. If we are insistent on keeping our enemies out of the U.N., then we are destroying...
...United Nations survive? Shall the attempt to bring about peace by the concerted power of international understanding be discarded?'' As for Hammarskjold himself, "he needs no defense from me. His record is an open book . . . Let the Soviet government, if it wishes, pretend that he does not exist; it will find that he is far from a disembodied ghost, and it will find that peace-loving states will continue to support his patient search for the right road to security and peace in the Congo...
Such observations, appearing daily, have established Ricketts as the leader of a Far East cult whose followers exist mainly to revile him. "Your tastes coincide with a slob," raged one such. "I stick pins in your column only in the hope that you will not sleep at night." An American film exhibitor in Tokyo, infuriated by Ricketts' reviews, made him a standing offer of free air passage home; when Ricketts allowed that he found Elvis Presley's "hiccuping" intolerable, students at Yokohama High School wrathfully formed a Send Al Ricketts to Mars Club. Recently, the irate husband...
...admit that these and other arms control measures can exist, when proposed in a context of increased deterrence, decreased Kahn's callousness; it detracts from the that he has sunk to the depths of human pravity, that by such detailed description thermonuclear war he makes it more like Kahn's position is simply that no what we and the Russians do, war come. Therefore we should think about beforehand if we expect to salvage more despair; for, as he argues, we might...
Kennedy is faced at the outset with a series of crises, and it is essential that he start off on the right diplomatic foot. Embassies, special emissaries, and channels of communication between governments exist, and there are sound reasons why they are preferable to personal diplomacy. It is not simply that Rusk is needed to coordinate policy in Washington, though that is also true. The question is whether Kennedy will be pressured into the kind of thinking that characterized and crippled the conduct of diplomacy under Eisenhower. Man-to-man talks gave leaders valuable knowledge of each other, but they...