Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, primate of the Lyon diocese, who was responsible for bringing the dying Herriot back into the church, issued a statement rejecting with indignation "the gratuitous and odious allegations . . . which dare to assert that I had taken advantage of the weakness of a diminished man." Herriot not only answered his questions in a firm voice, said the cardinal, but twice expressed "his desire for a religious funeral...
...dinner in Vientiane, Premier Phoui Sananikone fervently repeated that his country was determined to stay out of the cold war, and Hammarskjold pointedly replied that "all Laos' friends will rejoice in that statement." Five days later, having thus made it clear that he was not on hand to disturb Laotian neutrality (which was imposed by the 1954 Geneva agreement), Hammarskjold was able to proceed with his plan. He invited Economics Expert Sakari Tuomioja, conservative-minded onetime Premier of Finland, to go to Laos as the Secretary-General's personal representative...
...When President Conant insisted. I obey the law," Mater reminisces, "he accompanied his statement with the idea he heartily disapproved of the whole idea." And so Mater capitulated--partially...
...signed the oath, but attached a three-paragraph proviso, thus making the entire oath invalid. At the same time, Mather issued another statement, calling the oath "completely antagonistic to the spirit which breathes through the Constitution of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." (He smilingly recalls, however, that he constitution of the Commonwealth was out of print at the time, and that he "couldn't find a copy of what I was swearing to uphold...