Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 21: Dulles returned to Paris for pre-Geneva talks with Bidault and Eden. Two days later, a cable arrived from Indo-China which the British privately refer to as "Navarre's panic cable." Navarre said Dienbienphu was on the verge of falling, could be saved only by heavy air support either from the U.S. or Britain. Dulles again rejected the appeal both because it would be "war," which Congress would have to approve, and because U.S. military experts doubted that air strikes could now save the fortress. Bidault seemed to have got the idea from Dulles that congressional...
Some Paris cynics described this as a "deal among cronies" or as a compromise, half to save Juin's face, half to save the French government's face. The proud, peppery Marshal is expected to resign from NATO before year...
...World Bank must do in backward areas is not much different from the transformation he has seen in his native South. Says he: "The Civil War knocked us flat on our backs and left us there . . . Slowly and painfully, we picked ourselves up. We began to be able to save and invest ... A little capital begot more capital; a little expansion begot more expansion . . . The South's story tells how development works...
...save some of the "50,000 people who die each year in lifeboats," Dr. Bombard wanted to give a dramatic demonstration of three unlikely propositions: 1) sea water is drinkable in small quantities for a limited time without ill effects, 2) it is possible to live on the resources of the sea, 3) small craft normally considered unnavigable can be made to reach a predetermined point...
...Services committees, the Vermont senator criticized the Administration's policy in Indochina as not positive enough. "If we were going to support military action in Vietnam at all, it should have been stronger and more definite," he asserted. Flanders conceded, however, that we can no longer do anything to save Vietnam, where "the desire for independence was so great it led to union with the Communists...