Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy rose in the Senate one afternoon last week with a resolution directing the Secretary of State to insist that the Big Four conference have an agenda item on the status of satellite nations. Since the U.S., Britain and France want no set agenda in meeting with the Russians, the resolution, if passed, would have hamstrung the anti-Communist leaders...
...Because Adlai has way above average intelligence, he is not complacent. He is well aware of the immensity of the problems confronting a President. He doubts whether he or any man has sufficient ability to perform the function of Chief Executive. He thinks it is presumptuous for anyone to insist that he is the man who can. A very liberal friend of mine, experienced in politics on the national level, no longer thinks Stevenson would be the strongest candidate. This friend is convinced that Sen. Symington has more vote appeal than anyone else. Sen. Kefauver still has a following...
Italian Premier Mario Scelba, worried by the prospect of U.S. forces withdrawing from a neutralized Austria, and thus leaving Italy less protected in the north, went out of his way to insist that for Italy there is no alternative to alliance with the West...
LIBERATION. In Paris last week, John Foster Dulles brought the NATO Council meeting to rapt attention with the statement that the West must never accept the continued enslavement of captive peoples living under Communist rule, and must insist on discussing liberation at the Big Four conference. Dulles has by no means abandoned his liberation policy, although he stressed that he did not think that the West should attempt liberation by armed force from outside. The Austrian treaty,* in a very real sense, liberated an area of Europe. This example might have a profound effect in making Austria's satellite...
...British theatergoers do not insist on seeing a smash hit, but are satisfied with "a jolly good little play...