Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CARL M. HALVARSON Japan Baptist Mission Aomori, Japan...
Acting on instructions from Washington, U.S. Ambassador James B. Conant made a special call on West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn one day last week. His mission: to hand Adenauer a German translation of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' proposals for expanding the political and economic roles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (TIME, April 30). This, Conant told Adenauer gravely, should be regarded as a major statement of U.S. policy...
...believe this mission from Moscow adds up to failure. True, the joint communiqué of Premier Bulganin and Prime Minister Eden suggests scant agreement on anything important. But benefits may be measured in less tangible terms, and we think that these are a few such benefits...
Other ex-partisans testified to Moranino's calculated treachery to supposed allies. A rival Socialist group was wiped out when Moranino's Reds deliberately retreated on either side of them without warning. A leader of an Allied mission charged with arranging for arms drops testified that, late in the war, a Moranino aide confided to him drunkenly: "Now that we have the arms, we don't need you any more." A few weeks later Moranino's Reds again retreated abruptly in the midst of a German assault. The Allied mission was annihilated...
...Sherman Cooper sent out a hasty S O S for Meany's more diplomatic vice president, the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, to come soothe the anger of India's trade unionists. Reuther returned to the U.S. last week after a shining fortnight's good-will mission. He had sat in as a drummer at a village folk dance, got dolled up in a turban, been festooned with countless flowers, made 118 speeches. In a Calcutta auto plant, he had eaten lunch with the workers instead of in the bosses' dining room, explaining, "Hell, I wouldn...