Word: mades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Navy brass found out the truth of a remark that former Treasury Secretary Humphrey once made about Anderson: "Don't be misled about him just because he doesn't shout and pound the table the way I do. He can be firm as a rock." Shortly after he took over as boss of the Navy, Anderson overruled a promotion board's decision to pass over abrasive Captain Hyman Rickover, nuclear submarine pioneer, for the second and final time (two failures to win promotion to rear admiral meant automatic retirement). Determined to keep Rickover in the Navy...
More was involved than a mere jockeying over dates. The delay also reflected a dispute over what kind of summit there should be, and continuing disagreement over Western policy, as De Gaulle made clear in a remarkable press conference (see below...
...other complaints. Foreign Office hands complained that 83-year-old Chancellor Adenauer had taken to shaping foreign policy in secret. Others resented Adenauer's insistence that the alliance with France must be the cornerstone of West Germany's international relations. Many German businessmen and politicians no longer made any bones about their belief that De Gaulle was extracting from Bonn greater political and economic concessions than his friendship was worth-and were convinced that De Gaulle was really not interested in seeing Germany become a great power...
...assembled newsmen De Gaulle began with a 15-minute "preliminary statement," made without notes, that turned out to be almost word for word like a mimeographed summary handed to the newsmen as they came in. In the constitution of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, the general had seen to it that as President his would be the right to define France's foreign policy, and his monarchic-type "press conference"-more an audience with an articulate and intellectual head of state-was his chosen forum for doing so. He had a great deal of news to make...
Just where the Watutsis came from, whether from Egypt or Ethiopia, no one can say, but as soon as they made their appearance in what was to become Ruanda and Urundi, their great size (average height: 6 ft. 6 in.) froze the hearts of the tribes already living there. The pygmy Mutwas (average height: 4 ft. 6 in.) quickly became their slaves, and the industrious Muhutus (average height: average) gradually settled down into a kind of serfdom. Though only some 550,000 strong, the tall Watutsis dominated a land of 4,600,000. They dressed themselves in fine togas...