Word: state
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable number of show-me skeptics, foreign and domestic, are worried that the thaw may put the U.S. on even thinner ice in a cold war that has yet to end. Last week three experienced diplomatic weathermen contributed to a growing debate on the subject. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter pledged the Eisenhower Administration to careful negotiation and something called "co-survival." President Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, warned against the perils of negotiation. And Mr. Cold War himself, Nikita Khrushchev, proclaimed that he is certainly a man of peace, turning out guided missiles...
...State Department said the guard had stayed overnight at a beach house with a would-be defector from Red China, identified as the Bombay representative of the Chinese Import-Export Corp. Sgt. Robert Armstrong, a native of Martinez, Calif., was released after intervention by the Bombay police...
...news dispatch from Bombay said he had been bound and beaten by the Chinese Reds. The dispatch attributed his discovery to an Indian postman. The State Department said only that he had been seen by an Indian citizen as he was being taken, bound, into the Chinese Communist consulate
...comments on the present state of Franco-American relations are at once perceptive and optimistic. "The idea of France's withdrawing from NATO is absurd. France is intelligent enough to realize that her security is to a large degree dependent on the American alliance. But De Gaulle thinks NATO's structure could be more efficient. For example, he thinks that there is too much integration in the army command, necessitating a discreet balance between generals and staff officers of the various countries. He won't change the structure by himself, but he would like to start negotiations to change...
...which I object appears to transfer to state legislatures and to officials appointed by partisan governors a responsibility which has constitutionally resided in non-political quarters," he wrote. The State Commissioner of Education returned Mather's oath, and Mather was faced with the alternative of taking the oath or resigning from the University. He signed the oath, and the controversy ended...