Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dreaming of being not President but Secretary of State, a man who had trained for the job during 50 years of corporation law and international diplomacy, Dulles translated his respect for Theodore Roosevelt's lessons about peace-by-power and Woodrow Wilson's lessons about peace-by-moral-fervor into a gleaming weapon against Communism...
...Secretary of State he wielded this weapon brilliantly-Trieste, Iran, Guatemala, Indo-China, Malaya, Austria, Formosa Strait, Lebanon, Berlin. He built up even more commanding influence because he wrapped up the political, military, economic and moral complexities of cold war into his own fighting faith. "Freedom must be a positive force that will penetrate," said John Foster Dulles. "If we demonstrate the good fruits of freedom, then we can know that freedom will prevail...
...Moral. The authority granted General Ely last week is both a consequence and a symbol of the vast new peacetime role De Gaulle has given France's army. Famed for courage-Ely wears the Croix de guerre with six citations (both World Wars and Indo China), still carries his arm in a sling as a result of a World War II wound-France's top active soldier has rare prestige with the French officer corps...
These were high-flown words-and thoughts-to come from the pen of an old soldier. But they were words carefully calculated for their effect on France's restless officers. The moral that Ely and De Gaulle clearly intended them to draw: the fate of Western civilization will rest in part on the manner in which France and the French army conduct themselves in the awakening nations of France's former African empire...
Power Divided. There was an inevitability about last week's changes, but their suddenness was caused by a moral crisis. The government was at loggerheads over Cuba's tourist-trapping casinos, closed since the fall of Batista. At first Fidel Castro opposed gambling on principle. Provisional President Urrutia, Premier Miro Cardona and the Cabinet backed him up. But Castro's stand on principle dissolved in the face of the rapidly falling foreign exchange (it is now possible to fire a .45 down any hall of the Havana Hilton without hitting even a mouse) and of the jobless...