Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran diplomat who became chief of the State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, Clubb got into trouble after Whittaker Chambers testified that he had once (1932) seen him in the offices of the Communist New Masses. In the course of defending himself against this not very grave charge, Clubb produced his personal diaries. These contained very candid entries about the Foreign Service and about Clubb's colleagues. These convinced the State Department Loyalty and Security Board that first examined the case that Clubb was too indiscreet to be a secure repository of secret information. Nevertheless, a month...
Europe, despite years of effort and the expenditure of billions of U.S. dollars, is still not defensible. France, drained by Indo-China, is in grave economic crisis. West Germany is still unarmed, still unable to defend itself against a Russian advance that might make a Communist military spearhead out of German men and industry...
Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Joseph Gotten in A Watery Grave...
Young Fingertips. Finding reason enough for their lives in the ways of Cloone, Ches and Finn pick up the rhyme of it from the old folks. There is Brink-o'-the-Grave, midwife and layer-out of the dead who can still keen the ancient Gaelic laments; Lord Caherdown, the bogus aristocrat and tosspot; and Old Font, the village Boswell. "The night our local member of Parliament threw the mace at the Speaker of the British House of Commons ... to call attention to the wrongs of Ireland," recalls Old Font, "we lighted bonfires here in Cloone an' held...
Also speaking at the forum was Navroz B. Vakil gr.L., unofficially representing the Indian people. Vakil remarked that India feels the United States is making a grave error in not recognizing Red China. "Red China will never come to an agreement with the United States," he said, "unless they facilitate a common meeting ground such as the United Nations...