Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders are antimilitarists-men who can never quite bring themselves to believe that it is sometimes wiser to spend money on bombers than on welfare programs. And even when, like Bevan, they have been awakened to power realities by political responsibility, they cannot escape the fact that their political strength rests on voters who seem to believe that the only thing that can stave off nuclear holocaust is Western concessions to Moscow...
Mission to Moscow. Thus driven, Socialist leaders sometimes find themselves operating in a kind of political no man's land between East and West. They often seem readier than conservative opponents to trade off elements of Western military strength in return for Soviet political concessions. It has not got them very far. Suslov was full of peace talk, but no more willing than Khrushchev to make any substantial compromises...
...President reiterated, obviously does not want a war that might mean the destruction of civilization, although it has the strength to wage and win one. But the real, the basic issue, is how best to prevent such a war. Said the President: No nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terror of war simply by refusing to defend its rights and live up to its responsibilities. And the U.S. cannot hope to escape war by running away from it, has no intention of surrendering to the Communists at Berlin or any place else. That said, President Eisenhower offered...
...back rooms, allied resentment ran deep. If France could pull its ships out of NATO unilaterally, asked NATO officers, what was to prevent Bonn from one day deciding to deny NATO the twelve West German divisions that are the keystone of NATO ground strength? "The French aren't acting like allies," snapped one Western diplomat. "If everyone can come and go as he pleases, we don't have an alliance." Actually the French had previously pulled out pledged NATO divisions to fight in Algeria without a by-your-leave, and on other occasions-including the U.S. transfer...
...chamber and concentration-camp deaths of 4,000,000 Russians, 160,000 Jews and 72,000 Poles. After nearly a decade in prison and four months on trial, frail emaciated Erich Koch, now 62, was still defiant. Coughing into a handkerchief, sipping tea and porridge to rally his strength, Koch made long, fiery speeches in Polish in his own defense, disputing the court's right to try him, insisting that Polish Communists were guilty of crimes worse than those he was charged with. Between speeches he listened glumly to wartime recordings of his once-vibrant voice proclaiming, "Without Hitler...