Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week two significant events occurred within 24 hours. Tuesday evening Premier Pierre Mendès-France gathered in Paris, for the first time in seven years, all the chiefs of the French provincial and overseas administration. He outlined the economic revolution which he is about to launch. Wednesday evening, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles administered to the French Premier, for the first time since the end of the war, a diplomatic slap in the face...
...when it is possible to destroy a nation's capacity and will to retaliate. Only our ability and our announced willingness to take decisive action during the present period might still resolve the issue between world freedom and world slavery. Soon the Kremlin will be militarily ready to launch a large-scale surprise assault on the United States. Our current strength in air power and nuclear weapons, thus far the major deterrent to all-out war, has not been exploited in our reaction to continued local aggression...
Another reporter then asked the President about suggestions that America launch a "preventive war" against the Communist world. Ike defined preventive war as waging some sort of quick police action to avoid a terrific cataclysm of destruction later. Under present conditions, said Ike, a preventive attack would inevitably result in atomic retaliation, leave cities in ruins, thousands dead or mangled. That isn't preventive war, the President said, that is war, and he would not even listen to anyone who came to talk with him about it. A reporter asked if his objection to preventive war was merely military...
...worked closely and dangerously with American OSS agents; he earned the wartime regard of U.S. Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan, now the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand. For five months in 1946, Pridi was Thailand's Premier. Forced into exile 15 months later, Pridi left Bangkok in a motor launch borrowed from a good friend in the U.S. embassy. But on arrival in Singapore, Pridi mysteriously disappeared; nothing was seen or heard of him for the next seven years...
...efforts to scour away some of this blackness, Jessie used to gather mountaineer women into meetings. She would suddenly stand up and snap, "I smell sin," then launch into a sermon reeking with brimstone. One of Gatineau's few doctors recalls: "These ignorant women didn't know how Jessie had found them out, and were terrified when she started telling them the agonies of hellfire. Next day my office would be full of hysterical women about to have a breakdown...