Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with 37? in his pocket. "This is the crib. We're it. We're trying to make a Fifth Avenue out of the tundra, to accomplish in less than 50 years what the U.S. did in 100. Where else could you get that kind of mission, in a land that cozies you with beauty on one hand and swats you hard-if you're not looking sharp-with the other...
...sometimes easier to get a message from the moon than from Laos. Tucked in the jungle fastnesses of Southeast Asia, Laos has no telephone communication with the outside world; telegraph messages tend to run as late as 48 hours; the U.S. aid mission in the capital city of Vientiane (pop. 25,000) has a radiotelephone link with the U.S. aid mission in Bangkok, Thailand, but during the monsoon season, as now, messages are static-ridden and fragmentary...
Resolution No. 1, passed by an overwhelming voice vote, was a 2,500-word document, disarmingly titled "In Unity-for Mission," that contained some remarkably tough criticism of Presbyterians Eisenhower and Dulles. The resolution, which is slated to become a message to the 9,462 congregations of the new denomination, attacked what it called "the contemporary myth of the free world." The U.S., it declared, "counts among its allies some nations which are in no sense free. By our actions we proclaim to the world that lands where human freedom is utterly dead can qualify for membership in the free...
...Gaulle is no doubt a difficult man--stubborn, conceited, obsessed by a sense of his personal mission to restore France to greatness. His concept of political leadership smacks suspiciously of authoritarianism to many Frenchmen who hold zealous devotion to the ideals of individual liberty and the inherent virtue of la Republique as it stands. Such devotion, laudable as it may be in the abstract, is, however, sometimes blind to the practical requirements of government. France's present national crisis seems to be one of these occasions. De Gaulle, offering resolution to a country that has been plagued by political pusillanimity...
Only a few sober observers faced the grim reality: a handful of disciplined and dedicated Communists were brazenly but legally taking over a free country whose economy is dependent on U.S. aid, whose troops are being trained by a French military mission, whose 2,000,000 citizens have hardly heard of Marx and Lenin, and do not know what a Communist is. They only know that they are poor, and when they get the vote, many of them cast it for "the other party," which in Laos, as in so many of the world's underdeveloped countries, means...