Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be based upon Soviet actions. The need for U.S. aid would be just as compelling without any threat from the Soviet Union, and if under-developed nations get the idea that the U.S. is merely combatting Communism with dollars, they will take the dollars but reject the friendship that could accompany them...
...period. Because it is hard for the mind to visualize so vast a slaughter in human terms, the Communists have been able to reap an advantage from the very size of their funeral pyre: many Westerners, finding the monstrous incredible, cannot see the blood on the hand of pretended friendship proffered by Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung...
...resident who is considered to be hiding something or is "not frank enough," casual visitors will call on him, each using a different form of approach. These visitors, assigned by the police, may consist of Youth Corps League members, party members, unit chiefs, members of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, activists from peasants' or workers' organizations. This will go on until the man is cleared or arrested. Said a middle-aged housewife who came to Hong Kong a few months ago: "You people outside always pity us for our short rations, dirty rice and scanty clothing. I tell...
...violence was successfully halted. In 1916 the late Julean Arnold, a lifelong friend of China and onetime commercial attache in the U.S. embassy in Peking, visited Seattle and asked if there was any interest among the city's top citizens in forming an organization to promote Sino-American friendship. A group of 27 leaders from Seattle's professional and business communities responded to Arnold's challenge. The first president of the China Club was the venerable Thomas Burke, a former Chief Justice of the Washington Territory Supreme Court, who, as a private in the home guard...
...Beaverbrook hankered to succeed Winston Churchill in Britain's dark days of 1941 and 1942, says Driberg, and suffered such intense inner conflict between the "canker of ambition" and his genuine friendship for Churchill that, racked with psychosomatic asthma, he quit the Cabinet in the "supreme nervous crisis of his life...