Word: postscript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a rank due to the United States among nations," said Washington, "which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be ready to repel it." Then Arthur Radford, the quiet admiral, adds the postscript that is his life: "The more our country sweats in peace, the less it will bleed...
...report was issued, C.E.D. Chairman James D. Zellerbach, president of Crown-Zellerbach Corp., added a personal postscript: "I don't think a billion dollars a year is too much to earmark for this economic aid job. Certainly it is not a sum which the $400 billion U.S. economy cannot take easily in its stride . . . We should be interested in working with these peoples over a continuing period of time, helping them build up their countries instead of going in only to offset the Russians . . . That way we'll build up a great deal more good will...
...ground that he "urgently recommended that Soviet Russia be involved in the war against Japan." The two sides of the argument were talking about different questions: 1) Was it desirable that Russia enter the war? 2) Were the concessions justified? Last week, in a 40,000-word postscript to the 500,000-word Yalta record, the Defense Department released the supposed gist of all "major official military advice given on the question of Soviet participation in the war against Japan." It turned out that MacArthur sent his opinions on the subject to Washington only twice during...
...TIME with a picture of himself on the cover. Said the cover caption: "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos." A few minutes later, a White House aide handed the correspondent a small envelope. It contained a warm personal farewell from Ike and Mamie. In a tongue-in-cheek postscript, the President stoutly denied that on Darby's departure there would be "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos...
THERE is an important political postscript to be written out of the summit conference at Geneva. Have the Russians been able to persuade President Eisenhower to run in 1956? I am sure that he is nearer today to decision to stand for re-election than he was before he sat down at the conference table...