Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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those who are cold and are not clothed." "This," said Eisenhower, "is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." Five Precepts. As a contrast to Russian conduct, Eisenhower restated "a few clear precepts" which govern U.S. foreign policy : "First: No people on earth can be held - as a people - to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice...
...imperial bureaucrat. Ever since the 16th century, when Luther invoked the help of German princes to fight off the dominion of Rome, the union of Throne and Altar had been a cardinal tenet of German Protestantism. The Kaiser in Berlin was the church's "Supreme Bishop," pledged to govern his country as a Christian king...
...whirling rhythm, and passed on, exalted. "You see," cried a delirious Gold Coaster, grabbing the arm of a wondering white man, "it is real-REAL! Real democracy. He is one of us. A man of the people. Now that you have seen, you must understand: we can govern ourselves...
When America must hire foreign mercenaries to do our fighting for us, then it will be time to invite the Politburo to govern us. Korea is neither Truman's war nor Stalin's war; it is another battle in the continuing struggle for the survival of Christian civilization, like Tours, Lepanto, Guadalcanal, and some lesser engagements like the one at the Little Big Horn. Brass-rail strategists would do well to acquaint themselves with the facts and lessons of history. Imperial Rome withered and decayed and was sacked by her mercenaries...
...Chamber to any party or coalition which wins more than 50% of the vote. De Gasperi, whose own devotion to minority rights was hardened during his long years in opposition to Mussolini, is reluctantly convinced that democracy can survive in Italy only if the majority gets a chance to govern, free from parliamentary harassment from representatives who are sworn enemies of parliamentary democracy. He fears in particular a cynical coalition of Italy's Communists (the strongest Red party in Western Europe, and the only one to gain strength at the polls in recent years) and the rising neoFascists...