Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...openly discussing drastic readjustments in the armed forces based on the new weaponry, e.g., possible abolition of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command as the day of missiles draws closer (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the U.S. a whiff of a plan formulated by Chairman Arthur Radford of the Joint Chiefs to cut the U.S. armed forces by 800,000 men over the next four years caused a press uproar last fortnight (TIME, July 23). In the absence of open Pentagon discussion, U.S. moves in Britain's direction were best visible last week as straws in the wind. The straws...
This statement was thoroughly confirmed by the joint communiqué issued when the conference ended. With the exception of another demand for Red China's admission to the U.N., a cautiously worded expression of sympathy for "the desire of the people of Algeria for freedom," and a kind word for "safeguarding legitimate economic interests" in the Middle East, the communiqué carried little but vague platitudes of a pronounced Nehrunian cast. "Points on which there could be no agreement were just left out," explained one Indian diplomat. Tito, in halting English, bade his guests goodbye. "Come soon back...
...long-range military planners-including Dwight Eisenhower, Defense Secretary Wilson and Chairman Arthur Radford of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-firmly believe that the next big war, if it comes, will be an atomic-airpower onslaught. Consequently in planning future U.S. military policy, they put heavy stress on ready deterrent forces -the Strategic Air Command, atom-armed Navy carriers and submarines, guided missiles...
...appeared, Admiral Radford moved swiftly to set the record straight. It is true, he said, that new weapons may ultimately reduce U.S. military manpower requirements. But so far as the rumored cut of 800,000 or any other specific proposals go, someone was "anticipating conclusions the chairman [of the Joint Chiefs] himself has not yet reached ... As is usual in leaks of this kind, there is a mixture of fact and pure speculation...
...single agreement of any kind. "If the Iranian government has undertaken measures for its defense," he said, "they have been dictated by the needs of state on the basis of past experience." At the last minute the Shah even refused to put his name on an innocuous, Russian-prepared joint statement of good will on the ground that it would be improper, since he is only "chief of state and not of the Iranian government...