Word: speech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herter. The real meaning of the series of high-level meetings, said Herter in a speech to the National Foreign Trade Council in Manhattan, is that a new process of communication between East and West may be developing. "I say 'may' because only time can tell whether we shall have learned to talk somewhat less at cross purposes than in the past, and with better understanding of opposing points of view." Khrushchev, said Herter, had said there was a need for "a common language despite the ideological conflict to which he staunchly adheres. Many will find this hard...
Strategy, rather than dollars and cents, was the Commander in Chief's concern during the 2½-hour meeting with the military leaders. (Even as he prepared to confer with the President, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, in a speech read for him in Manhattan, opposed as "folly" sharp cutbacks in conventional forces.) Unlike last year, the military men were not asked to sign a public statement supporting the 1961 defense budget...
...Gaulle, on tour in Alsace, rejected the rebel proposal with a curt aside in a speech, declaring that his offer had been directed "to those who fight, not those who are hors de combat...
After a peaceful reassurance that he "favored the de Gaulle regime," French historian and political scientist Jean-Baptiste Duroselle quickly shifted into a frank and at times critical discussion of the present French government in a brief speech before the Eisenhower club last night...
Since most students aim to build up credit for Stateside colleges, only 500 have actually graduated. But more graduates are on the way. Maryland conducts full-scale commencements in Heidelberg (and Tokyo), with caps and gowns, a heady speech by the Governor of Maryland...