Word: regional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling," said Hammarskjold, "that there is a general will to peace, and that this will should be fostered and encouraged, not by attempts to impose from outside solutions to problems of vital significance to everyone in the region," but by local initiative. "If we have previously experienced chain reactions leading to a continuous deterioration of the situation, we may now have the possibility of starting a chain of reactions in the opposite direction." He told reporters that he was "not willing" to recommend any next step himself. "I feel strongly that more than ever it is in the hands...
Since Latin America is the United States' natural relative both in point of geography and because it provides this country with more trade than any other single region, the State Department's non-military attitude seems rather myopic. Latin America provides America with a large part of its oil, copper, lead, and bauxite, yet American foreign affairs experts have not instituted any long range plan to guard our interests...
NATO might meet with some difficulty in executing its economic role. Non-Atlantic nations might find it difficult accepting aid from a previously military defense region. Previously mentioned export rivalries might also prove obstructive. These must be overcome...
...fear of Stalin that made Khrushchev accept the job of secretary of the Moscow region party committee in 1949. Three years later, at the 19th party congress, it was plain gratitude which made him say, "Our beloved Stalin, great leader and genius-like teacher," as he accepted one of the ten key secretaryships of the new party Central Committee. The truth was Stalin liked and encouraged Khrushchev. Immediately after the dictator's death Khrushchev had inherited enough of Stalin's power within the party structure to take over the party secretaryship, Stalin's old job, from Georgy...
...voice was too loud for Stalin. Recalled to Moscow, he was named one of eight judges in the court-martial of Tukhachevsky, duly joined in the death sentence. The following year he himself disappeared, leaving the Japanese attack he had forecast to be belatedly met in the Lake Baikal region in 1939 by Georgy Zhukov...