Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE call for the German soldier as a co-defender of the free world did not come from us. But now Germany is again to bear arms, integrated and built into a European defense system. The new German soldier must be different from the German G.I. of World War II...
History was the honored guest at the London conference. In stately Lancaster House, where Chopin once played mazurkas for Queen Victoria, the accolade of sovereignty was restored, in all but name, to defeated West Germany. Britain dramatically abandoned a centuries-old tradition of "splendid isolation" from the Continent. The U.S...
Later all hell broke loose in the area between Santos Dumont Airport and the Air Ministry. (Our office building stands in majestic isolation between the two.) José and Paulo were in the office when machine guns began rattling and bullets started thudding into the walls. Paulo and José...
Only a naval officer and an army doctor met him at Viettri, the exchange point near the Red River. "Where is my staff?" said Christian de Castries. The unpleasant fact was that, in the bitterness of defeat, some senior French officers had refused to go to Viettri on the ground...
To give the talks the best possible chance of success, Mendès restored to legal status the Neo-Destour Party of nationalists, outlawed since 1938. Several hundred Tunisians, held in isolation or in jail, were amnestied (though not any accused of murder). Travel controls were eased. These improvements followed...