Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the EDC: I agree with a great many French statesmen or soldiers-including General de Gaulle, Edouard Herriot, Marshal Juin-in considering that scheme as a terrible danger for my country...
...pledged an armored division to serve in the proposed European army. Air force units will also be given. Although the treaty does not make the United Kingdom a member of EDC, it provides for co-operation that is so close and complete that there is little difference. Some French statesmen have indicated that they feel Britain has not promised enough. This view is hardly realistic, however. By making the present commitment, Britain has made a great concession of sovereignty. Certainly, in the event of war, more aid would immediately come. As opposed to France and other continental states, Britain...
First to move in was the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1769, when British troops landed in Boston, terrified colonial statesmen petitioned the College for a meeting place across the Charles. Since Holden was empty, it was selected. In the years that followed, students packed the galleries to learn James Otis' lesson in revolution; and when revolution came, Holden again played its part. Colonial troops flooded into Cambridge, 160 of them squeezing into the tiny Chapel. When they finally rolled out, Holden was almost unfit...
...Moscow," says the paper, "is a great center of political, artistic and economic life; the wisest statesmen, most responsible exponents of economic organization and most open-minded scholars all turn to Moscow." So does L'Unit...
...American Conference in Caracas last week doubted that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could put through the U.S. program against Communism in the Americas. But in pressing his cause, Dulles ran smack into the age-old Latin American feeling against the Colossus of the North. Though the Latin statesmen for the most part could see the intellectual force of Dulles' arguments, the fact was that deep in their hearts many of them resented such forceful U.S. leadership. Emotionally, they were prepared to cheer any David brash enough to give Goliath a symbolic kick in the pants...