Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus," says Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morrison '08, "a Yale man became the greatest benefactor to Harvard in our entire history, making a noble return for the part that Harvard men had taken in founding his alma mater." Three years after Harvard's House system was in operation, Yale, had its College system, also as a result of a gift from Harkness...
...Solid Phalanx. Australia, the Philippines and some other nations wanted a treaty more severe on Japan. The U.S. wanted a Japan able to stand on its feet and contribute to the stabilization of Asia. One of the most dangerous conflicts was with Britain. Shortly after Herbert Morrison became Foreign Secretary in March 1951, the British government thought that Japan should not recognize the Chinese Nationalist government in Formosa as the government of China. Dulles flew to London. He tried to persuade the British to let Japan decide for itself which Chinese government to recognize. The British cabinet first decided...
...Socialists had two lines to peddle: apology for troubles at home (Attlee: "We've had to bat on a very sticky wicket"), and insistence that Churchill would be too militant (Herbert Morrison: "I tremble for the cause of peace if the Conservative temperament and warlike excitability were predominant in Parliament"). Actually, this suspicion of Churchill plays on his bulldog reputation and not on his recent utterances, for Churchill is acutely aware of the danger of sounding warlike in war-weary Britain. On these unspecific lines, the battle between Attlee's Socialists and Churchill's Tories began...
Flying back from the West Coast together, France's Robert Schuman. Britain's Herbert Morrison, and the U.S.'s Dean Acheson began their conversations in the noisy intimacy of an Air Force plane. The discussion continued around a long elliptical table on the top floor of the State Department Annex, a block from the White House...
...argument for the Pleven plan of integrating German troops into a supranational European army. But, at Acheson's urging, he agreed to allow German troops to be called up by the Bonn government and trained by the U.S. before the European army was fully set up. Morrison abandoned Britain's opposition to the Schuman plan of international control of the Ruhr. But he got Schuman to concede that Britain need not be a full partner, promising only "the closest possible association...