Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imagine Walter Lippmann was not left undismayed by your statement, "He is undismayed by the fact that many of his readers might find it hard to distinguish between his solutions and those preferred by the Kremlin [Dec. 22]." Are all solutions for resolving the cold war tension destined to automatic rejection if they bear a similarity to Soviet proposals...
Never once did the British allow themselves to be drawn into the political wrangling. Instead, they contented themselves with a mild statement at the end of the meeting explaining that "our silence'' meant, not agreement with the anticolonial remarks, but only a "desire to preserve harmony." When Guinea, the only French territory to vote non to De Gaulle, proposed a resolution asking for special consideration from the U.N. in view of its "desertion" by France, the French merely stared ahead in silence, did not even bother to vote against the resolution. Africa's independent nations were clearly...
...present their credentials to the new Pope, Papée and Girdvainis received no invitations. Vatican Secretary of State Domenico Tardini explained that the omissions were made because the two diplomats represented "phantom" governments that are no longer recognized by other countries accredited to the Holy See. That statement itself was enough for old Vatican hands to sense a new atmosphere; under Pius XII, who made a point of keeping the Polish and Lithuanian envoys as anti-Communist symbols, there had not been any reference to phantoms...
...Deans yesterday opposed a statement by Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, that there is a "disturbing" lack of undergraduate engineers...
Washington speculation had been that Dulles' statement, at a news conference Tuesday, was a hint at a shift in the U.S. line aimed to provoke Mikoyan's interest and a change in the Soviet line...