Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have won. Knowing what you started from. General de Gaulle, one takes off one's hat to you. But now what are you going to do? Rely on the Anglo-Saxons? They will treat you as a satellite. Range yourself with the Soviets? They will impose their rule on France and liquidate you. The only way to win greatness and independence for your nation is by an entente with beaten Germany. If you master the spirit of revenge, if you seize the opportunity that history offers you today, you will be the greatest man of all time...
...very different-one with the highest per capita income in the world, the other with very nearly the lowest-so long at odds in foreign policy, now find themselves accenting what they have in common: they are the world's two largest democracies. Both threw off British rule. In Gandhi and in Lincoln, each has a national hero whose qualities of charity, compassion and gentleness both nations revere. U.S. aid to India, once grudgingly given and grudgingly received, has accelerated rapidly of late, is now past the $2 billion mark. As Indians get over their new-nation sensitivity about...
Actually Burma's pols have been electioneering ever since last May, when moonfaced ex-premier U Nu lashed out at army rule (TIME, June 1). U Nu mixes religious meditation and campaign oratory as no one else does: fortnight ago, emerging from 45 days of fasting and contemplation, he coincidentally had a new batch of speeches ready, mixing pleas for devotion with appeals for votes. He stumped hard for his "clean" faction of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, which ruled Burma for eleven years. His chief opponents: party dissidents who call themselves the league...
Presidential pronouncements are always too late to be effective, and when they finally do appear they inevitably have an ambiguous quality. This rule applies particuarly to President Eisenhower's recent statement on the NDEA disclaimer affidavit...
...great purposes of this Administration, wrote Dwight Eisenhower on the eve of his world tour, "has been to advance the rule of law in the world through actions directly by the U.S. Government and in concert with the governments of other countries. It is open to us to further this great purpose both through optimum use of existing international institutions and through the adoption of changes and improvements in those institutions...