Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long-Shot Chance. Herter was often riled during his Capitol Hill years by isolationist speeches of fellow Republicans. "If the Republican Party is going to survive," he warned in 1942, "it must be represented by as many individuals with a worldwide outlook as the party can find. Abandonment of isolationism is the Republican Party's main issue." Spotting Dwight Eisenhower as a man with the worldwide outlook that the G.O.P. needed, Herter visited him in Europe in 1951 and urged him to run. He had the courage to give Ike some blunt advice: "If you think there...
...foreign aid, cultural exchange and persuasion. "The more significant changes taking place below the surface level of events," he said in a speech last December, "are being effected not by violence and military means but by more subtle forms of indirect aggression and the force of ideas. [The U.S. must not] take for granted the uneasy stages of truce in which we find ourselves at present, for a truce is not a resting but a working period. It represents a margin of time in which we must...
...above all, Dulles was the clear, stern conscience of freedom. Said Dulles: "Our nation must stand as a solid rock in a storm-tossed world . . . Rededication to the faith of our fathers is . . . what is needed to make apparent the futility of any world program based on the suppression of freedom...
...intended their joint letter for the private reading of their bishops; but their complaint turned up in the liberal French Catholic magazine Témoignage Chrétien (Christian Witness). "Arbitrary arrests and detentions are numerous," they wrote. "Interrogations are conducted only too normally by methods that we must call torture. Summary executions of prisoners, civilian and military . . . are not exceptional. Finally, it is not unusual during operations for the wounded to be finished...
...Negro children; but he got little help from the U.S. Army, which was not anxious to call dramatic attention to its illegitimacy problem. Last year, impelled by the fact that the great majority of Negro-fathered children are now approaching the school-leaving age of 14, when they must find an awkward place for themselves in German society, Hoosman took a giant step and founded the Association to Help Colored and Parentless Children...