Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combatants laid down their barrage. But as they did so, the Commander in Chief let loose his cannonball of the week. Said Dwight Eisenhower at his press conference: "I repeat again what the meaning of this whole thing is, a nation's strategy is devised as an entity, as a unified thing. It cannot be ... the function of any separate forces of any kind ... It must be directed under unified control. The amount of supervisory control that is given to the Secretary of Defense ... is that amount which will make it possible for him to carry out a unified...
Then in the U.N., Lodge stated the case: "Our flights are a necessary defensive measure against massive surprise attack, and it follows, therefore, that if the danger of such attack were removed, the need for this defense could be correspondingly lessened . . . Let us attack the cause of the Soviet concerns-not their symptoms." The U.S. proposal: the prompt establishment of a northern zone of inspection against surprise attack...
Normalize to Neutralize. Careful not to let his tongue outrace his ambition, Nasser added prudently: "The Arab people intend to get rid of every foreign domination. They believe in non-alignment." He had need of a little help, as well as loud hurrahs, from the Russians. His arms debts (including those he inherited by absorbing Syria) were strapping him: not only is his cotton crop mortgaged to Russia for years, but Russia is dumping Egyptian cotton elsewhere at lower prices, thus debasing its value...
Fanfani's Worry. This gadfly role has drawn upon Malagodi the combined fire of all Italy's major parties. The Communists rarely let a day pass without belaboring him as "a tool of big business." Amintore Fanfani, the busy little boss of the Christian Democrats, has publicly threatened to exclude the Liberals from future Cabinets. (Says Malagodi, chortling, "Fanfani's palms are sweating...
...wily, mustachioed K. I. Singh, who for 110 tempestuous days last year ruled as Prime Minister, and is strongly suspected of being under the thumb of Red China, where he once took refuge for three years. Last week, after abruptly refusing to attend the King's parley, Singh let loose with an anti-U.S., anti-British diatribe. Three months in office, stormed Singh, had convinced him that "Nepal is under imminent danger to her sovereignty and independence at the hands of British and American people in Nepal...