Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian relations with Red China. "Ah " said Nikita Khrushchev, "you are subtle and clever, leading me into talking about these things." But he talked at length said he was not worried about Red China left Humphrey with the impression that he feels superior about the Chinese. Humphrey got the idea that Khrushchev still wants a Summit conference...
...political area, made the mistake of regarding foreign policy as essentially military policy. Thus the fiasco of unleashing Chiang ("In an effort to create a world balance of power, we upset the local balance of power"), thus the Baghdad Pact ("Just because NATO worked in Europe, people thought the idea best for every region"), thus the utopian SEATO pipe dream ("We've armed an awful lot of people in Asia who would never think of firing a gun, not even at a Chinese communist...
...obvious intensity with which he holds his beliefs, he has no all-embracing doctrine that makes his views on every question predictable, and that serves him as a fetter as well as a crutch. He is a confirmed socialist, but he has acknowledged that "Socialism is an experimental idea, not a dogma." (I quote from a published symposium entitled Declaration, which contains essays by Osborne and Kenneth Tynan which are worth reading for anybody who cares about contemporary theatre...
Dawson expected much criticism of his proposals at the time he suggested it, suspecting that those opposed to the idea would believe that it would have "a narrowing effect...
...history scarcely ranks with Britain's in terms of length, the two stand together as monuments of principle. No less resolute than Mr. Churchill in 1940, the boys of Bicker know full well the consequence of yielding to that which is foreign. If Mr. Churchill was busy thwarting the idea of a Master Race, and if the Bicker boys now seem intent on preserving it, no matter; it is a question of principle...