Word: intransigente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sincerity & Suspicion. Another criticism of Dulles is that his "intransigent" attitude toward the Soviet Union increases the danger of superbomb war. British Socialists and their new spiritual leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, wring their hands whenever Dulles makes a statement defining the struggle with Communism in moral and religious terms.
Communist Tito, who plays on Western fears that he might get friendly with Russia again now that Stalin is dead, considers himself in a strong bargaining position. In a recent speech he declared: "If Trieste depends on me, I can give De Gasperi the answer. He will not get it...
One defect in U.N. negotiating technique had become quite plain. This was a tendency to make some demands for bargaining purposes, or to soothe the feelings of South Korea's intransigent Syngman Rhee, without making a sufficiently clear distinction between these demands and those basic questions of principle on...
Simplicity & Grandeur. Neither Right nor Left was ready to rejoice at the dissolution of the intransigent Gaullist party. Many Frenchmen share his criticism of impotent postwar French politics, though rejecting his drastic remedies. Said leftist Combat: "Whatever each of us may think about General de Gaulle, it is impossible to...
Colonial Sentiments. What makes the colonial problem in North Africa different is the presence of nearly 2,000,000 French settlers, many of them born in North Africa, which they regard as their home. Americans on the scene frequently accuse the settlers of being more narrow, repressive and intransigent than...