Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote, when it came, was a victory for the West and a defeat for the Russians. It was also a defeat for France. For four years and three months the West had been kept waiting by France. Last week, behind the public satisfaction expressed by Western statesmen, there was a relief that it would not be necessary again to wait for France...
...statesmen of the Atlantic alliance, assembled in Paris last week, decided that the defense of Europe must henceforth be based on nuclear weapons. It is no longer enough, they warned, for Europe to rely on the deterrent nuclear power of the U.S. Strategic Air Command. Now that atomic weapons are entering the tactical field (atomic cannon, atomic guided missiles, Belgians, Danes, Turks -all the armies and peoples of Western Europe-must reshape their defenses and readjust their prejudices to the dictates of nuclear warfare...
...governments before answering a Soviet attack with atomic weapons. Such a plan would leave the West helpless during the first vital hours, while the Reds could be atom-bombing at will. John Foster Dulles put forward a compromise solution that won unanimous approval. In effect, it established that the statesmen have final authority, and generals were bound to consult them, but no cumbrous machinery of confining rules was laid down. After all, said Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak: "If an atomic bomb knocks out the telephone, I don't think we can wait for the service...
Mendès, taking the rostrum, said that as a result of the "remorseless campaign" of lies and calumnies conducted by "certain leading persons in France," he had suffered ''deep humiliation" when negotiating with allied statesmen in London. "I will not submit to this usury," he said. "The question which faces you tonight is . . . does the government have your confidence as patriots and Deputies?" The vote: 287 to 240 in favor of Mendès, his smallest majority...
...world's generals and statesmen, the radioactive "fallout" from nuclear explosions is a grave worry for the future. For scientists who date ancient objects by Carbon 14. it is already a serious nuisance and threatens to get worse. Southwestern laboratories near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon...