Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President never quite cease. Last week the Joint Chiefs of Staff were still recommending air and sea attack on China at the first serious provocation. On the other hand, every bookstore was well stocked with volumes by such critics as Adlai Stevenson and George F. Kennan, who insist that the Administration does not step softly enough, panics in a crisis, blusters, bullies and frightens the rest of the world. The President's continuing, critical problem is to keep the peace without appeasing...
...Said Trans World Airlines' Chairman Warren Lee Pierson, head of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce: "We should go slow in preaching the value of free enterprise and of competition abroad while we erect unreasonably barriers to competition with our own markets. We should not insist that friendly nations shut off trade with Iron Curtain countries unless we are will ing to assist them in finding alternate markets...
...would listen, the Russians have kept up another siren song: there could be lots of trade if only the Americans did not insist on an embargo. Britons, Germans, Japanese, French and Danes listened wistfully...
...supports Diem, for all his shortcomings and despite the fact that he has shown a tendency to be highhanded as well as high-principled. The French insist that they also support Diem (who consistently opposed their colonial rule), but U.S. officials suspect the French of trying to hold on to their colonial influence in the rubber-rich South by encouraging a pro-French clique of Vietnamese officers in intrigues against Diem. As a result of the intrigue, Diem is more or less locked up inside his Saigon capital by the forces of Army Chief of Staff General Nguyen Van Hinh...
...McCarthy has followed his expected form by abusing the fellow Senators who might have given him a lenient hearing. In doing so, he has flopped from his celestial altar. Although Senators are willing to believe the world has gone to hell, they will scarcely allow a colleague to insist they are a lynch party driving it there...