Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this grim analysis John Foster Dulles flew to Augusta last week to brief President Eisenhower. When their conferences were over, the President personally approved sending Walter Robertson and Arthur Radford to Formosa with a specific, two-point mission: 1) to evaluate, in consultation with Chiang and Nationalist military leaders, the Communists' intentions; and 2) to consider whether it is necessary to reinforce the Formosa garrison with more U.S. strength, chiefly Air Force fighter and Army anti-aircraft units...
...Robertson and Radford flew toward the Orient, speculation about their mission ran off on a wrong trail. Press wires around the world clacked out the rumor that Radford and Robertson, two old friends of Chiang Kaishek, had been assigned to give him the bad news that the U.S. would not help him defend the Matsus and Quemoy, and to urge that he get his troops off those islands. They had no such orders and no such intentions. But since Formosa did not know why they were coming, or even how long they planned to stay, the worldwide speculation bred bafflement...
...Radford and Robertson eased away. After several hours of conferences, which were expected to extend into several days, a Chinese Nationalist communiqué glowed that "the conversation was conducted in an atmosphere of great harmony." Taipei officialdom dropped the hostile mood induced by false interpretation of the Radford-Robertson mission. The Communists had shifted the Formosa crisis, but had not achieved any sharp break in relations between the U.S. and the Chinese Nationalists...
...deep voice wavered as he reached his conclusion: "I know one thing. If we do fulfill our high mission and our high destiny, it will be because we have resolved to do our dead level best to advance peace, to advance security, to shore up a shaky world. Only by doing that can we vindicate the sacrifice of those who died on land and sea, and fulfill the hopes of men and women in every free land...
...French literature at the State University at Utrecht, to be its head. Last week, having just received the first fruits of his recent U.S. tour in the form of a $10,000 donation from the Ford Foundation, Rector Brugmans had reason to feel that the college's mission has become even broader than its name. "Our concept of Europe," says he, "goes as far as liberty goes." Underlying Themes. Today, financed by grants from the Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourg and West German governments, the college has 37 students from 16 different countries, including three refugees from Eastern Europe...