Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold firmly to a vital paradox and to a fixed purpose: We maintain strength only in order some day to yield it-in league with all other nations. We shall go on working ceaselessly for the sure and safe accord that alone will make this possible. For we seek, above all else, to lift from the backs of men and all nations their terrible burden of armaments...
...alarm, the Swiss government invited five nations-the Big Four and India-to hold an immediate summit conference to avert the danger of a third world...
...Arabs' population lead to two to one, and by their industry and Western talents had made themselves Palestine's senior partner. Their young men had served bravely with the British and won Britain's obligation and sympathy. When Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin then tried to hold them down, they went right ahead bringing in homeless refugees from Hitler's Europe by the boatload. They fought and made their own state. The very day they proclaimed its independence, President Truman recognized Israel. The next day five Arab armies invaded the new republic. Israel hurled them back...
...earlier era the dynamic young nation would have pushed on until it had found the borders it could hold, but this was no longer possible in the day of U.N., of collective security and world opinion...
...Hungarian had lifted up his son so that the child might touch a U.S. flag on a correspondent's car. Again and again, innocent of world affairs, they had asked if arms would come soon from America. Said one: "If the Russians come back, we can't hold out forever...