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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This freedom may be lost in many ways, of which the purges of the early fifties are only one. Such freedom may equally well be endangered by the American impulse towards consensus--the polite desire of every committee chairman to say: "we all agree that . . ." which among professors leads to voluntary conformity...
After such menaces, was there more to say? Prime Minister Macmillan, regarding nuclear war as "suicidal folly" proclaimed it "the duty of statesmen to see if it is possible to establish some basis of confidence...
...there is any shooting, he said, it will be "to stop us from doing our duty. We are not saying that we are going to shoot our way into Berlin. We say we are just going to go and continue carrying out our responsibilities to those people and the ones that we agreed to undertake way back in 1945. So that if we are stopped, it will be somebody else using force...
...another careful choice of terms last week, Vice President Nixon called for conservatism without "stand-pattism." Said Nixon to a Los Angeles Republican luncheon: "I don't think we could make a greater mistake than to say that because some people don't like being called conservative the Republican Party should stop being conservative. We should be proud of what we believe...
...Khrushchev had opened the battle with what the British called "a shot across Macmillan's bow." He had no intention, said Khrushchev, of budging from his ultimatum to the Western powers to get out of Berlin by May 27. "Some excessively belligerent figures in the West," thundered Khrushchev, "say that should control over the access routes to West Berlin be turned over to the East Germans, they would fight their way through by force of arms. Only people who do not take account of the facts could reason this way. Soviet forces are stationed in East Germany, and they...