Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exploding nuclear warheads; 2) inexpensive fallout shelters would provide a "very high degree of protection" against fallout radiation. "Although thermonuclear war would be a major disaster," said the task-force report, "the magnitude of the disaster can be markedly limited by protective measures . . . A successful fallout protection program can give assurance of survival to millions who might otherwise die or be seriously crippled from radiation sickness...
Justified Summit. On all sides then, homework seemed unnecessary, grand new schemes seemed futile, and the only purpose (in Russian and British eyes) seemed to be to prepare a conclusion that would give nothing away, would solve nothing, and would merely refer things to the heads of government for a summit conference. The U.S. objective remains the removal of the Soviet threat to West Berlin, and the threat, in fact, is the real reason that Secretary Herter is talking with the Russians in the first place. President Eisenhower had made it clear that Geneva had not yet "justified" the summit...
When the news broke, a group of panicky Labor M.P.s hastened off to Gaitskell, urged him to call a special private parliamentary meeting to bolster himself with a renewed vote of confidence. But Gaitskell peremptorily refused: "Why? There's no need." He was ready to give battle...
With grim determination last week, Gaitskell again asserted his leadership. To promise unequivocally to renounce the bomb as Cousins demanded, said Gaitskell, would be "escapist, myopic and positively dangerous to the peace of the world." He refused to give such a pledge, and denied the right even of a Labor Party Conference to bind "those of us who have the responsibility of leadership" in a future Labor government. To ban the bomb unilaterally "would be handing the Soviet Union the power to overrun Europe, without any fear of retaliation...
...odds the most articulate Social Democrat advocate of broadening the party's middle-class appeal. He was once an officer in Hitler's army, but in a noncombat occupation job in France, where his command of the language is said to have enabled him to give secret help to the French underground. He is a professor-the most respected title in Germany-and an excellent speaker...