Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late last week Dwight Eisenhower set out for a couple of days of relative relaxation at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. The weekend had scarcely begun when news arrived that physical strain resulting from overwork had forced Britain's Sir Winston Churchill (78) to postpone indefinitely plans for a Bermuda meeting with Ike and French Premier Joseph Laniel (see FOREIGN NEWS). President Eisenhower promptly sent off a sympathetic letter to the British Prime Minister. Wrote the President: "I look upon this as only a temporary deferment of our meeting. Your health...
...made overtures to the heretic, Tito. They even confessed that in postwar policy they had made some "mistakes." All along the globecircling seam where the West and Communism rub together abrasively, the stagnant air of cold war began to stir with Kremlin gestures of concession, of adjustment, even of retreat (see below...
...year had passed since the Reds had begun to bulldoze a permanent barrier between East & West Germany. On the face of it, the new program represented retreat, an admission of failure of Russia's eight-year attempt to bolshevize East Germany. The Communists, confessed Premier Grotewohl, had made a "series of mistakes" which were now being rectified. "The former Soviet Control Commission is to a certain extent responsible for the mistakes which were made," admitted the official Soviet newspaper in East Berlin. The turnabout was, in part at least, dictated by the unbearable hardships, the hunger, the shortages...
...Indo-China: "To hasten the end of the war by all means at our disposal," but not "a retreat that would be incompatible with . . . our dead...
...Then the Chinese launched their main assault. Thousands of Red troops (some estimates were as high as 25,000), supported by tanks and artillery, poured over the ROKs in the Capitol Hill and Outpost Texas sectors. At one point, the ROKs fell back two miles. It was the biggest retreat the U.N. has made in Korea in two years. One difficulty was that commanders of new ROK divisions, for fear of losing face, had failed to report how serious a jam they were in until it was too late to help...