Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Call your Vanguard failure a victory. It was a real demonstration to the Russians that freedom of information and liberty of the press exists in America. Neither your nation nor your people are responsible for exaggerated press deductions and calculations...
...cool determination" rather than "poorly founded exaltation." Along with other NATO leaders who sat around the table, Secretary General Spaak could find little resemblance between what went on in the conference room and what was shouted in the headlines of dispute and disintegration that had rattled out of the press rooms. Said Spaak: "The double character of the alliance-defensive military effort, aggressive diplomatic effort-was clearly underlined. There is now an Atlantic policy...
...inclination to husband his energy. When the second of the day's two conference sessions ran past 8 o'clock, he begged off attending a black-tie dinner given by NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak. Rumors that the President was ill promptly swept through the press corps. Grinned Ike: "Tell those gentlemen I am a 9:30 or 10 o'clock boy tonight...
...West. He still may, but lately, possibly because the U.S. and France have been delivering their $55 million in development aid on schedule while the Chinese Communists have made good on just a fraction of the $22.9 million worth of cement, steel and textile shipments promised for 1957, his press has been outspokenly antiCommunist, and Cambodia has been voting more and more with...
...only 20% of the land is arable, the island not only feeds 9,000,000 civilians and 500,000 soldiers, but exports food as well. The U.S., which has come through with $2 billion in aid since 1951, provides the military hardware and meets half the military payroll. The press is effectively controlled, and any threat of internal subversion by the Chinese Communists is kept well in hand by the zealous (some say too zealous) security police called the Peace Preservation Corps. Stern and 70, Chiang Kai-shek rules party, army and people as firmly as ever...