Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ironed out. The ministers agreed to meet with other NATO representatives in Paris on July 10, as a prelude to Geneva. As the diplomats parted, the new confidence was salted with a grain of caution. Said Antoine Pinay: "It would be very naïve to take signs as proof of Russia's peaceful intentions. You don't tear up your insurance policy merely because an architect comes and tells you your house is well built...
...price. Essentially, the democracies want to apply a weed killer to Communist expansion and subversion of democratic systems. If the Communists truly desire peaceful coexistence, they would prove it by enforcing the Litvinoff Agreement of 1933 to terminate the international activities of the Communist Party. A second proof of Russian sincerity would be the reunification of Germany as a sovereign democratic state-neither "neutralized" nor satellite. A third proof would properly be the honoring of Soviet commitments, taken at Yalta, to permit self-determination in the Balkan states and Poland, and emancipate those unhappy slave states. If Russia satisfied these...
...carnivore. All told, 38 foreign ministers are gathered in San Francisco, among them the Big Four: Britain's Harold MacmilIan, France's Antoine Pinay, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. More than anything the assembled delegates say, their presence was proof of the attention that the U.N. still commands in the world...
...Alte had been right after all, and the note was proof positive. For years his opponents had wailed that his steady pursuit of alliance with the West and a strong rearmed Germany was destroying all chance of dealing with the Russians for unification. Der Alte, staring stonily at his critics, had insisted that the Russians would negotiate only when the West was united and strong-and not until then...
...pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course of an investigation over the past few months in French West Africa," said La Graviére, "I have obtained proof that several hundred Negroes have been sent as slaves by African dealers to the Arab states of Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The Arab is a proud man and there are certain domestic jobs he doesn't like to do. If he can afford it, he wants slaves to do them...