Word: momental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France and Germany all pay attention on political matters to military leaders; we in Britain find this inexplicable. What is disquieting at the moment is that, with the illness of Eisenhower and the resignation of Dulles, the mainspring of Western defense is weakened to such an alarming degree that the political direction could be taken over by these "talkative generals"-no match at all for Top Politician Khrushchev...
...warmest moment Paris-born Chris Herter went to the musty Ecole Alsatienne on the Left Bank, where he was a student at age six, told the students of today in fluent French: "I see myself again as if it were yesterday, leaving for the Ecole . . . when I see little Americans going off to play baseball in the U.S. I cannot help thinking of the nice games of 'hunter's ball' that I played with my little playmates in the streets...
Plainly, Red China's leadership had concluded that if its smaller neighbors could not be deceived by propaganda, they must be quieted by fear. Red China's truculence also served another classic function: at the moment, Peking needs internal pressure more than it needs external friends...
Scattered Crowds. Ismet Inonu, 74, who succeeded Ataturk as President (1938-50) of Turkey, has another claim to Turkey's gratitude. Strongman Ataturk allowed an obedient opposition party to form, but it was Inonu who in 1950 ran fair elections and, losing them, surrendered office peaceably-the key moment in Turkey's transition from authoritarianism to democracy. Now old and deaf but still alert, he is leader of the Republican People's Party, in opposition to the ruling Democrats of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes...
...President feels that such an integration would have few advantages at the moment. He stressed that "the main business of a college is education" and that becoming part of the University would supply few educational advantages not already held by Radcliffe...