Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought up in the belief," wrote John Foster Dulles to the President of the U.S. last week, "that this nation of ours was not merely a self-serving society but was founded with a mission to help build a world where liberty and justice would prevail." So saying, Dulles, gravely ill of cancer, resigned as Secretary of State. Replied Dwight Eisenhower: "You have set a record that stands clear and strong for all to see." Appointed to succeed Dulles in as critical time as ever faced a nation in a role of leadership: Christian Archibald Herter, 64, longtime student...
...founders," the new Secretary had said of the other two books, "represented many creeds, but most of them took a spiritual view of the nature of man. They believed that this nation had a mission to help men everywhere to get the great opportunity to be and to do what God designed . . . Freedom cannot be contained-it is all-pervading . . . It is the despots who should feel haunted. They, not we, should fear the future...
...result of Harold Macmillan's trip to Moscow last month was his arrangement with Premier Nikita Khrushchev to send a trade mission to the Soviet Union "in the near future." Last week the Russians gave a rude shock to British businessmen whose hopes had been roused by windy Communist talk of a $2.5 billion rise in East-West trade. Before a British commercial group in London, a Soviet trade expert read off a blunt message from Nikita Khrushchev: "Countries that are interested in increasing their exports to the Soviet Union should increase their purchases from it." Most of what...
Richard S. Dole G.Ed., has recently decided to become a missionary in Africa and teach at American mission schools in Angola, Portuguese, West Africa...
Around the Bend. They were all sorts -religious idealists, graduates of Army guardhouses, drunkards, professional bad-men, adolescent adventurers; their one unifying trait was that they seemed to care little for this world. The mission assigned them sounded simple. While General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Chinese divisions held the Japanese in position, the Marauders were to slice around end in long flanking attacks and set up roadblocks in the rear. The technique worked at Walawbum and Shaduzup; at Myitkyina it ended in disaster for the 5307th...