Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even such resolute national unity is "simply an indefinite preservation of the balance of terror. We all recognize that this is not enough ... If this sword of annihilation is ever to be removed from its precarious balance over the head of all mankind, some more positive course of action must somehow be found." To Richard Nixon, more positive action lies in extending the rule of law, under which men maintain peace with justice, to govern the course of international conduct...
Last week, back from a tour of Europe (a must for potential candidates), where he visited NATO's General Lauris Norstad and West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt ("great fella"), handsome Stu Symington held a news conference. Was he a candidate for the Democratic nomination? Reply: "I appreciate the thought. But at this time I have no organization and no plans." But would he refuse a draft? Reply: "I'm in the business of politics. Of course I wouldn't refuse. I wouldn't refuse anything like that." Stu Symington had avoided saying anything divisive...
Fighting & Fears. All sorts of influences were now at work on the old man. His son Paul, a Roman Catholic priest, dared advise him that he must not try to stay in the front line too long. His old Cologne friend, Banker Robert Pferdmenges, gently explained how in big business a corporation president, by becoming board chairman, sloughs off the daily burden while overseeing the continuity of policy. Adenauer himself badly wanted a strong presidential candidate to head off the "catastrophic" possibility that a Socialist (the popular Carlo Schmid) might win the office. And Adenauer was also swayed by fears...
...Chancellor, before boarding a special railway car for Italy, recorded a bitter little speech to his countrymen. It contained an odd digression. Lashing out at British "wire-pullers" almost as if the British forced him to the step, he conceded that the decision had been made "quickly-but I must say in retrospect that it was well considered and correct. My decision is intended to ensure the continuity of our policy for years to come. The position, task and work of the federal President is underestimated; it is much greater than generally believed. I would like to say that...
...choosing and counseling the next Chancellor (who will be elected by the Bundestag). He hopes to follow the example of his friend De Gaulle in influencing events from an eminence. Perhaps he will be less influential than he foresees. Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier has already warned that "there must be no twisting of the constitution on any account," and others argue that real power inevitably remains in the Chancellor's control of party patronage...