Word: majoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summit Meetings. I do not oppose summit meetings as such. Indeed, I have always believed that we should not permit ourselves to be placed in the position of opposing a conference at any level, including the summit. My major point was that a summit conference is useless unless we know what we wish to discuss there. I do believe that the manner in which we have prepared for the coming meeting has not been too responsible...
Kadar placed major blame for the 1956 uprising on "international imperialism headed by U.S. reactionary quarters...
...Historian Morison's brisk and necessarily brief account. In Manila alone, 20.000 Japanese fought house-to-house to the death. Except for Leyte. the Japanese never made any concerted attacks on U.S. beachheads, and this undoubtedly speeded the pace of the campaigns. After Luzon was secured, 38 major and minor landings were launched in 44 days, a record for amphibious operations unlikely ever to be challenged. If U.S. troops paid for their victories (761 killed in Mindanao), the Japanese overpaid staggeringly for their defeats (25,000 killed in Mindanao...
...solution obviously is to create a strong career diplomatic corps and to draw ambassadors from this group. A larger appropriation for social expenses could solve the problem of finances in the major capitals of Europe...
...third major point, Kissinger spoke of the future of "uncommitted" nations. Denying that the United States should attempt to match all Russian programs in these countries, he affirmed that foreign aid is necessary. He expressed doubt that foreign aid will be decisive in shaping the loyalties of these new and underdeveloped countries. "I ame not at all convinced that the pedantic rules of Western policy, combined with a certain lack of energy, might not be less appealing than Moscow and Peiping," he added...