Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet with the deans last night, and it had been indicated previously that a decision on non-Honors tutorial would be made at this meeting. For some reason, however, last evening's meeting was not held, and this, together with Perkins' statement, indicates a change in the climate of opinion about non-Honors...
Others and No Opinion...
...Soviet note, with a spurious mildness and plausibility, set out to court every color of German or European political opinion. ''Millions of Englishmen cannot forget the tragic lot of Coventry," or the Czechs, Lidice. Could the West be sure a rearmed West Germany "will not attack its present partners again?" Khrushchev's underlying theme was that he rejects German reunification. The Communists are there to stay in East Germany (see below), and the only kind of reunification that can be hoped for is a confederation...
...papers deal pragmatically with each international crisis as it arises, refuse to accept the view that the U.S. is or can be in a dominant position. One major criterion for judging a policy: its anticipated effect on world opinion. This has sometimes led the Cowles brothers to argue that the U.S. may eventually lose more by taking a strong stand than by backing off a little under pressure...
Ultimate Goal. The Cowles view of world opinion rejects the argument that recognition of Communist China would go too far in making Communism respectable in Asia. Said the Des Moines Tribune in January 1951, shortly after the Red Chinese intervened in Korea: "Yes, we know that Communist China is an aggressor, a violator of the United Nations Charter . . . But it is the government of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese land and people. We might as well recognize this fact. And if we want to tell Mao Tse-tung he is a bad boy ... we shall have to recognize...