Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sanders Theatre, Gaitskell stressed the need for increased Anglo-American cooperation in this area of the world. He conceded that it might be necessary "for the United States to proceed without close and obvious cooperation with Britain and France," but asked for some consultation now with a gradual increase in the future...
...gradual withdrawal of Western forces from Germany and Soviet forces from the satellites would "clearly have to be subject to control. But here the latest proposals of the Russians them-selves for a zone in which there would be both aerial and ground controls might be appropriately introduced. Indeed, one could envisage the whole plan as forming part of a wider move towards a disarmament agreement between the great powers...
When Soviet Secret Police Boss Ivan Serov, lately notorious in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS), set up headquarters in Warsaw in 1944, he realized that the NKVD was for the first time operating in a country with a Catholic majority. He favored a gradual undermining of the Church's position rather than a direct frontal attack, picked a Polish political adventurer named Boleslaw Piasecki to lead a group of "progressive," i.e., proCommunist, Catholics. Piasecki had learned the tricks of his trade as an agent for Mussolini and later for the Gestapo, had organized shock troops to liquidate Red partisans...
...demonstrated last Saturday when Faisal spoke of "beloved Egypt" and regretted her "present woes." There are Iraqui elements which are far more Kremlin-inclined than Faisal or el-Said, and which would ally Iraq with the Syrian and Egyptian camps if they could gain power. Some observers sense a gradual anti-West drift in Iraq, but do not find it alarmingly serious...
...light of the transport problem, Katzenbach feels that the Pentagon will now be forced to use atomic weapons in place of troops to pursue its policy of "gradual deterrence." The author cites Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles's belief that conflicts must be localized through "carefully chosen atomic weapons." Katzenbach doubts, however, that atomic weapons could be used successfully in the Suez crisis, or in central Europe...