Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Acheson, who as Under Secretary (1945-47) and Secretary of State (1949-53) helped fashion the NATO defense system and recommended sending troops into Korea, wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that Berlin may test the West's will more than Korea did. He ridiculed the notion that Khrushchev will "be put off by talk." He rejected a new Berlin airlift as nothing more than "another formula for putting off the evil day" when the Russians either take over or are engaged "where the problem must be faced," on the ground...
...building up of NATO power in Europe, an increase in American troop strength and a return of British and French divisions to the continent, possibly Turkish and Italian reinforcements, and a strengthening of NATO's tactical air force. At home the unwise demobilization of our Army strength since Korea should be reversed and a crash ICBM program put into immediate effect...
...comparison, Franklin Roosevelt's Gallup rating ranged from 84% to 34%, Harry Truman's from 87%, soon after he succeeded Roosevelt, to 23% at the scandal-marred, Korea-scarred end of his second term...
...closer Vatican ties; in exchange, Agaganian may ask draft exemption for students for the priesthood and permission to build more schools for the island's growing Catholic flock (now 114,000). Next week, after celebrating Mass in Taipei's Armed Forces Stadium, the cardinal moves on to Korea and Japan-showing the cross throughout an area menaced by Communism...
...novel is centered upon London, a city struggling to forget the Pusan road, "the Commonwealth youngsters skewered on the Dieppe beaches," and Kenya's savage snipers. As the story unfolds-it is seen through the plain, distressed eyes of Captain Alan Curtis, veteran of Korea, Kenya, Cyprus-TV Tycoon Lord Arthur Illius announces plans for a Festival of London. A prize, gravely named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should...