Word: globally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clearly, today's United Nations is not what its founders had in mind in 1945. Instead of a true global organization, it today resembles a giant coalition of the free world against the Soviet Union and its satellites. Wartime U.S. Soviet harmony has turned to dissonant conflict. Envisioned as an agency for collective security, the UN is now, at least in its political functions, little more than a propaganda forum where each side bids for the weight of world opinion. The free world now seeks, and should continue seek, its security through a whole series of regional organization such...
...office. Moreover, he is the first Secretary of State to use travel as part of his method of operation. Dulles, by frequently putting the secretarial ear to the ground at various points on the globe, combines the benefits of localized U.S. embassy reports with his own understanding of the global situation. And at age 66 he has made a discovery that Grandfather John Watson Foster (President Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State) would find hard to believe: a modern-day Secretary of State has more time for undisturbed thought and concentration aloft in an airplane than...
Said the official "background paper'': "Egypt's culture, trade and economic life are linked to the West. Ideologically, Egypt is outspokenly against Communism. Militarily, Egypt considers that the only possible global danger to the Middle East is an invasion from Russia...
...with intricate gear and radio time signals. In return, the Air Force hopes to get more accurate information about the shape of the earth and about distances between widely separated points on its surface. Both of these items would be of value in dispatching aircraft or guided missiles to global targets...
...today, Americans are faced with the prospect of fighting in Indo-China. The emergence of Russia and the United States as the two most powerful nations in history has made such a change in global politics that the defense of three unpronounceable states in the midst of a steaming jungle is now as vital to U.S. national interest as the defense of the Philippines...