Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While hardly enthusiastic, Macmillan tentatively approved use of the island, as long as Britain need take no part in the actual testing. But he prudently reserved the right to get his Cabinet's reaction before granting formal permission. The outlook: probable, but far from a sure Christmas gift...
Russell's delight at the defeat of Hitler was short-lived. Immediately after Hiroshima he wrote, "The atomic bomb makes one...reconsider all sorts of things. I have never, not even in 1940, felt the outlook as gloomy as now. Everything is working up for a war between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., with us a satellite of the U.S.A.; both sides will use atomic bombs, and very little will be left...
...willingness to grant concessions to the Soviets has made him seem all the pinker to Americans. Yet his stand on the Baruch Proposal should absolve him; his current outlook may be wrong, but it cannot justly be called anti-western. Moreover, the uncanny accuracy of his previous prognostications should haunt his opponents. Russell simply does not deserve casual disregard...
...countries involved do not necessarily vote as a bloc, and they exhibit many different degrees of political stability, economic progress and philosophical outlook. Governments in Africa will come and go, the map will change and change again. The U.S. has not always fared well with these countries in the U.N., but there have been some successes. In the matter of Red China's U.N. membership, for instance, 19 black African nations, largely as a result of a frank political deal and skillful U.S. lobbying, did not side with Peking. Only last week the 50 Afro-Asian nations made...
...cash value of more education." It would stress the rule of law in national and world affairs, and forcefully analyze "the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war." From the consequences of protective tariffs to the advantages of foreign languages, it would always presuppose "universality and world outlook...