Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiate about, the hard fact remained: there is no other, easier way out of the cold war confrontation in Berlin. That fact was eloquently underlined last week in an exchange of letters to the New York Times. Replying to a writer who had argued that the U.S. ought to forget about Berlin and concentrate on broad social reforms as a way of winning the cold war, New York University's Philosophy Professor Sidney Hook said: "To imply that we can contain Communism by a more dynamic policy of social reform is like arguing that if England had abolished...
...world that he was not as Red as he was painted. Asked if he were a Communist, Jango Goulart grinned, opened his shirt to show a Roman Catholic medal, said, "Have you ever seen a real Communist wear things like this?" He said that he was willing to forget his old goals of nationalization of private enterprise, and even backed off from Quadros' ardent wooing of Communist-bloc nations. Said Goulart: "On principle, I favor trade relations with the whole world, but I admit there have been some exaggerations recently in Brazil's foreign policies...
...Weathervane. Few in Germany will forget Ulbricht's traitorous attacks on his own fellow Communists, many of them colleagues of long standing. Even today, contemporaries are sure that he tipped off the Nazis who arrested Thalmann and later executed him. In 1938 Ulbricht moved to Moscow to serve Stalin more closely. Of the many other German Communists who sought refuge in Russia, some 3,000 were killed or sent to labor camps by Moscow's harsh dictum. Ulbricht had not so much as raised a finger to protect them...
Personally, I prefer not to open up an old wound; just bury it and forget...
...hope all of us will not get so occupied with other matters occurring in this hemisphere that we forget that perhaps one of the most significant meetings in the history of the Western Hemisphere in this century is now taking place...