Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the President, is strong by power and by principle, dependent upon its caution and its wisdom. "By caution, I mean a prudent guard against fatuous expectations that a world, sick with ignorance, mutual fears and hates, can be miraculously cured by a single meeting. I mean a stern determination that we shall not be reckless and witless, relaxing our posture merely because a persistent foe may assume a smiling face and a soft voice. By wisdom, I mean a calm awareness that strength at home, strength in allies, strength in moral position, arm us in impregnable fashion to meet...
After graduating from business college in Seattle, Massachusetts-born Theodore Palmquist went to work for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., but quit because there were too many girls in the office ("I spent all my time opening and closing windows and fixing typewriter ribbons"). At C. M. Lovsted and Co., he worked his way up to be advertising manager. Five years later, at 27, he quit to enter the ministry. It took seven long years of college (University of Washington, College of the Pacific) and theological school (Pacific School of Religion) before he was ordained, but even during...
...angrily brushed off any suggestion of help from the West, and pleaded to be taken back. The Kremlin responded by cutting off Yugoslavia's trade with one satellite after another. In September 1949, it declared Yugoslavia "a foe and an enemy of the Soviet Union," and ended its mutual-defense agreement. Beginning with Rajk in Hungary, the Communists staged a series of satellite trials and purges-Kostov in Bulgaria, Slansky in Czechoslovakia, Gomulka in Poland-in which Communists accused of nationalistic ambitions were murdered for the crime of Titoism...
...year later, Tito had discovered Russia's "aggressive designs" and asked for military aid. Yugoslavs began calling Stalin "the black beast." But Tito still jealously guarded his dictator's independence. "There can be no question of a mutual-aid agreement," he explained, "but only of an agreement in which the U.S. will give arms to Yugoslavia. The U.S. has been getting something for several years-Yugoslav resistance to the Soviet bloc. Therefore the question 'What will the U.S. get?' should not be asked...
...trained in the U.S. and on U.S. bases in Europe. The result is that Yugoslavia's army of some 250,000 well-trained men is the biggest in Europe outside the Iron Curtain. In 1953 Tito drew even closer to the West by signing a regional pact of mutual assistance with NATO partners Greece and Turkey, but he has carefully shied away from NATO...