Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word Among the People." From the moment Nixon and his wife emerged from a MATS Constellation at Manila's airport, the Vice President generated friendship. He shook hands held out from the cordoned crowd, relied with effect on his California Spanish, three times halted his white Cadillac on the drive to Magsaysay's residence to shake hands. Secret Service men blanched, but Filipinos loved it. Said one in ultimate tribute: "The word among the people is that Nixon is like Magsaysay...
Citing U.S.-Philippine friendship, Nixon hoped "other nations will study this example carefully and realize what it means to walk side by side with the United States of America. Let them contrast your strength and security with the fate of small nations who were not united with us in mutual alliances. You are independent. But are Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania independent? Is there any freedom in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania...
...Friendship in Jeopardy. British retreat from Cyprus, said Menderes, would mean "an international disaster," and would upset the whole "delicate balance" of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, under which-after much bloody fighting between Greek and Turk-Turkey formally ceded Cyprus to Britain and ceded many of the offshore islands and Western Thrace to Greece...
...cannot sustain friendship by giving up what was always Turkish soil...
Subtly but surely, the Russians were boxing him in. Bulganin had begun the boxing process early in the trip, when he said in Leningrad: "I'm sure our friendship will endure. Nothing and nobody can disturb these relations, and in the Soviet people and in the Yugoslav people there's sufficient force to chop off the hand of anyone who dares...