Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill still faced a hard floor fight. But it got a helping hand from Dwight Eisenhower, who traveled to New York for an appeal to some 1,400 newspaper executives. Said the President: "To abandon our program for the gradual reduction of unjustifiable trade barriers . . . would mean a retreat to economic nationalism and isolationism. It would constitute a serious setback to our hopes for global peace...
...Austria, the vast Red army was preparing its first retreat in Europe since World War II. Having made up its mind to give the Austrians back their freedom in exchange for neutrality, the Kremlin was literally showering concessions on the people whom it had curbed for ten years-returning their P.W.s, permitting them to fly their own airplanes, dismantling restrictions on trade. The Russians plainly hoped that the West Germans would be tempted to imitate the Austrian pattern-to trade a pledge of neutrality for a promise of German unity. But Heinrich von Brentano, the man who is slated...
...resulted-83 convictions [and] only three acquittals-former Communists and onetime confidential informants have supplied the evidence which led juries to conclude [that] the persons were guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If they are to survive, the Communists know that the FBI and its sources of information must either retreat or be destroyed...
...long after the first reports of Chou's statement reached Washington, President Eisenhower was on the telephone from his farm in Gettysburg with Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (Secretary John Foster Dulles was at his island retreat in Lake Ontario.) By nightfall, the State Department had issued a reply: "The United States always welcomes any efforts, if sincere, to bring peace to the world. In the Formosa region we have an ally in the Free Republic of China and, of course, the United States would insist on Free China participating as an equal in any discussions concerning...
Italy's huge Communist Party, rejoicing only a few months ago in its great strength in the labor movement and its substantial minorities in the rural areas, last week was in shambling retreat...