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...Assured the U.S. that the current rate of fallout of radioactive strontium 90, "by the most sober and responsible scientific judgment," does not imperil the health of humanity...
...Menderes made his case. "You are aware," he said, "that Greece has worked up this whole tremendous agitation simply to be able to annex an island 40 miles from Turkey and 600 or 700 miles from her own mainland. In doing so the Greek government has not hesitated to imperil the future of NATO, of the Balkan Pact [Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia] and of its own good relations with Britain and Turkey...
...their seizure of Yikiang off the Tachens in January 1955 is possible-even probable. Logical place for it would be a small island group known colloquially as the 'White Dogs' eleven miles southeast of the Matsus. They are hardly worth expensive defense. Yet their fall would imperil the Matsus, and if accompanied by passive U.S. acquiescence, would severely shake our Formosa position...
...problems." Of the five new judges appointed, one has campaigned for the Nationalists in Cape Province and the rest are undistinguished, except in their loyalty to the Strydom regime. In Johannesburg, the Society of Advocates (a bar association) raised its voice in protest: "It is dangerous and unpatriotic to imperil, for the sake of mere political advantage, the great esteem in which our highest court is held." Editorialized the Rand Daily Mail: "History may yet record Monday, April 25, 1955, as one of the most tragic days in the Union's affairs...
...reply, the Government's brief insisted on its need and right to keep FBI reports and informants secret: "A large area of vital Government intelligence depends on undercover agents, paid informers and casual informers who must be guaranteed anonymity . . . Disclosure of these confidential sources would not only imperil the employee loyalty and security program but would also endanger the effective functioning of investigative agencies in the espionage and sabotage fields." A balance must be struck "between protection of the individual and the demands of national security...