Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Korea. At 82, Syngman Rhee still holds the country under his thumb. Last year the country picked its Vice President from the opposition, suggesting progress toward a two-party system. But after two attempts on his life, Vice President John M. Chang has stayed at home under heavy personal guard, consulting with his party's members behind barricaded walls. Though the North Korean Communists have kept building up their military strength, the South has been making something of an economic comeback with the help of about $300 million yearly in U.S. aid, but there is danger that...
Lester Pearson, Canadian ex-External Affairs chief and Nobel Peace Prizewinner: "No progress will be made if one side merely shouts 'coexistence' . . . while the other replies 'no appeasement' . . . Our policy and diplomacy is becoming as rigid and defensive as the trench warfare of 40 years ago . . ." There ought to be "frank, serious and complete exchanges of views-especially between Moscow and Washington-through diplomatic and political channels...
...Progress toward solving the problem was blocked in the past by the refusal of many companies to recognize that they had a problem, as well as by the fear that a program to help alcoholics would make the company appear to be a home for drunks. But many big corporations have courageously set examples for industry by creating their own programs or joining with other companies in community-type clinics. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. is one of the pioneers, in 1952 underwrote the cost of setting up a consultation clinic at New York University-Bellevue Medical Clinic...
...than any statesman. General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, knows and deals with the awkward big realities and the small difficulties of the NATO alliance-the insistence on selfish national objectives, the tendency to "let George do it." More than any diplomat, he influences the day-by-day progress of NATO-the integration of armed forces, the creation of a coherent system of logistics and supply, all the niggling but vital details of forging an effective military coalition...
...Tradition & Progress. The French are philosophically unlike the Americans, whose revolution, as Aron sees it, did not involve so much a change of mind as a change in title to power. They are unlike the British, whose revolution came on the installment plan, and was hardly noticed until it was all over. The French Revolution was different: it created a deep fission in the French mind between traditional and supposedly progressive values, and left all questions unresolved. The revolution tended to be a permanent thing-an ideal, a matter for the future rather than a historical event. Its romance became...