Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four days the two statesmen reached agreement on most major points, ended the conferences with mutual expressions of satisfaction and a joint rejection of Russia's proposed conference. On a few items there was no accord: Dulles, for example, firmly refused to commit U.S. military equipment for European defense to an international arms control agency; for his part, Mendès could not promise that U.S. matériel would not be used in putting down the North African violence. One major item-U.S. aid for South Viet Nam-was postponed until after General Lawton Collins, the special...
Those who found a cooler temperature in Russia might merely be misreading the thermometer. But there was an easily chartable reason why the West felt better. At Paris the West had learned that paralysis in fear of Soviet displeasure was not a policy. At Paris the West's statesmen had moved boldly for their own united defense, and then looked up to await Russia's reaction with the calm of men who had done what they...
...present danger of war, Europe responded to U.S. exhortation, but it does not respond similarly to alarms about Communism. Europeans have lived for centuries with neighbors who are implacably hostile and intent on destroying their way of life. Yet when an uninterested Europe let EDC go down, Western European statesmen saw with sudden clarity that something had to be done-that peace ultimately depends on strength...
...commend you for your timely appraisal of United Nations Charter Review. The best omen for a fruitful Review Conference is an indication that people are supporting the initiative of their statesmen in this issue...
...almost terrifying proportions." The European Defense Community, renounced by its parent after everyone else had accepted it, was dead. France was at sullen loggerheads with its allies. The Atlantic alliance itself creaked ominously, and the disgusted U.S. was steeling itself for "agonizing reappraisal." In those seven weeks, the statesmen of the alliance, mobilized by Britain's Anthony Eden, had found new initiatives and fresh will to repair the irreparable...