Word: facto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China policy critics who hold that Peking should be recognized because the Communists are in de facto control of the country, Dulles said: "The U.S. knows that the Chinese Communist regime exists. We know that very well, because they fought us in Korea. [But] let me say emphatically that the U.S. need never succumb to the argument of 'inevitability' . . . The reality is that ... a system which seeks to impose conformity is always in danger-and that results from the basic nature of human beings...
...effectively attempt to bar the admission of Manchukuo to the League of Nations? Would Harper's, Atlantic and the New Republic have insisted on doing business with Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini in the name of coexistence with Fascism? Liberals would have us adopt policies toward de facto Communist states which they vehemently opposed when applied to de facto Fascist states...
...statement hard for Britain, France-and even the U.S.-to swallow, since Western diplomacy had been bent on getting Nasser's signature on a treaty of some sort (see FOREIGN NEWS). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge announced in the U.N. Security Council that the U.S.'s "de facto acquiescence" was "provisional," depending on how the declaration "is carried out in practice." But as a U.N. diplomat put it in a corridor aside: "Since the U.S. doesn't want war and Britain and France don't want economic sanctions, the only thing we can do is accept...
...alleged reason for the expenditure of more money than anticipated is that the University has charged the Program rent for use of the bottom floor of the Geographical Institute in "an ex post facto manner...
Like the reunification of Germany, satellite liberation cannot be considered a visible objective, or even a real expectation. It stands, however, as a reminder that the world does not recognize the legality of Soviet de facto control over the satellites, and the the subjugated peoples of these countries will not be forgotten by a shrug of the shoulders and a despairing sigh...