Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question. What is the best way to deal with the Communists? From a demanding position of strength? Or from a purely defensive position of conciliation? Last week, as the West welcomed a rearmed Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a clear answer came through the Iron Curtain. In the face of the new display of Western unity and strength, the Communists were reacting almost desperately to Western initiative...
...suggested a compromise. The foreign ministers could meet first, to iron out the agenda and make sure the Russians had no opportunity to disrupt the top-level meeting by a sudden demand, for example, for the presence of Red China...
...accordance with the terms of Geneva, the French efficiently and soberly pulled out last week from Haiphong (pop. 200,000), their last territorial enclave in northern Viet Nam. Carefully collecting 300,000 tons of military hardware, including salvaged barbed wire and scrap-iron roofs torn from army warehouses, the French evacuated the last of 150,000 troops and 800,000 civilian refugees. Almost all the businessmen left town with them, Frenchmen, Indians, Chinese; those who remained hastily laid out $1.50 apiece for official, handkerchief-sized red-and-yellow-starred Communist flags...
...Steel Corp.'s President Arthur Bartlett Homer scissored a ribbon one afternoon last week. In the dark waters of the Bay of Quinte at the foot of the cliff, the rust-red lake steamer Powell Stackhouse cast off for Lackawanna, N.Y. with the first load of eastern Ontario iron...
Direct Foundation grants have enabled refugees from behind the Iron Curtain to establish the Free University of Berlin. The East European Fund helps ex-Soviet refugees toward a full participation in American life, and the Chekhov Publishing House, established in 1951, has reprinted 42 Russian titles suppressed inside the Soviet Union in order to preserve democratic contacts for the Russian people...