Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Begun in June, 1954, the USAREUR (U.S. Army, Europe) Religious Retreat House, Alpine Inn, Berchtesgaden, Germany, has served the religious-retreat needs of all denominations since that time. As of this date, some 26,000 military and civilian personnel stationed in Europe with the Army and Air Force have participated in retreats at Berchtesgaden...
...appeal of freedom and erosion of despotism were now so clearly established that they needed no self-conscious exploitation. The President did not cancel his Fourth of July weekend on the farm at Gettysburg; the Secretary of State did not return from his long weekend at Duck Island, his retreat on Lake Ontario. In Washington the experts' comments on Khrushchev's apparent dominance ranged from a cynical "You can't run anything with a committee" to sweeping predictions that the beginning of the end of Russian Communism was at hand. Until the air cleared, the safest prediction...
...costly Algerian war has dragged on and on, weakening France, dimming French prospects of salvaging some economic links with North Africa out of the wreckage of empire, and enfeebling the NATO defense against Communism by tying down 400,000 French troops. Worst of all, the U.S.'s "retreat from the principles of independence and anticolonialism" has damaged "our standing in the eyes of the free world, our leadership in the fight to keep that world free...
Peking's industrial retreat has been compelled by the need to ease up on the tormented peasantry. Chivied into collective farms, and harried by a series of natural disasters that ravaged 38 million acres of land inhabited by 70 million people (according to Chou En-lai's figures), China's peasants have become increasingly restive. Just how restive was made clear by Tung Pi-wu, President of the Supreme People's Court, who told the People's Congress that during the past year Red China's courts handled 1,000,000 cases of "corruption...