Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning and all afternoon some of the biggest names of U.S. foreign policy slipped unobtrusively into the White House for top-secret meetings. Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. was in and out of the President's office all day; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Arthur Radford hurried in through a side door, his aides carrying wooden easels and maps and charts covered with plastic blankets. On hand for two of the secret meetings was Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, along with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss. As the warm day's light...
Russia: Damaged what reputation it had by the cruelty of its repressions, disillusioning thousands of Communists in Europe and disabusing millions of non-Communists who thought that Russian rulers might be growing more humane. In passing, destroyed several illusions of dictatorship: that a secret-police state can crush any rebellion; that a younger generation can be educated by force to believe in Communism...
...Poles, there were some definite gains: the secret police has reportedly been reduced to the status of a counterespionage force, and the hated Ministry of State (Collective) Farms has merged with the Ministry of Agriculture. The press is still shackled, but Voice of America and Radio Free Europe broadcasts are no longer to be jammed. The Sejm (Parliament) enacted a new electoral law which promised liberalized, if not "free," elections in January. In Moscow Gomulka negotiated for more wheat and coal...
...Tito tells it, a great struggle is going on in the Kremlin between his kind of people and those he calls Stalinists. During his secret talks with Soviet leaders in the Crimea two months ago, he noted that "they began getting colder" toward himself and to earlier suggestions he had made for "democratization" of the Soviet satellite countries. However, he "did not take this too tragically," because he saw that "this was not the attitude of the entire Soviet leadership, but only of a section which had imposed its will on the others." In the end, to help them...
...than the President today!" Asked how she felt about spending another four years in the White House, Mamie, while posing for pictures in the library, said: "I'm feeling fine and very grateful." What manner of present had Ike given his wife? "That," laughed the President, "is our secret...