Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allied policy and capitalist prosperity, a haven for thousands upon thousands of East German refugees in flight from the drab, despondent backdrop of Communist East Germany. West Berlin's symbolism is repeated on a much larger scale in Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic. To erase Western strength in Berlin would be a sure step toward weakening West Germany, and the Russians have never ceased trying to punch a hole in NATO, to neutralize Germany and take it out of play by a succession of alternate bluffs and bribes. In this they have enjoyed a certain sympathy...
...these proposals and their many variants have one thing in common: the assumption that because the U.S.S.R. refuses to accept reunification of Germany by free elections (as it originally promised), the West must buy a German settlement by surrendering some of its own positions of strength. Sole exception to this rule is the formula advanced by Sir Anthony Eden at Geneva in 1955, and revived in the House of Commons last week by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Its basic provisions: Germany should be reunited by free elections and allowed to determine its own foreign policy (the NATO treaty does...
...change in electoral methods was just as devastating to the Roman Catholic center and to the Socialists, both of whom held their old voting strength yet lost heavily in seats. Socialist Guy Mollet, who helped bring De Gaulle to power and hoped to become Premier, now grumpily said that his Socialists would vote for De Gaulle as President and then go into opposition. The big factor in French politics was now Jacques Soustelle's U.N.R. The results...
...strength of Mills' thesis is also lessened by the iconoclastic, irreverent tone that characterizes his writing. By now, we realize that he dislikes the "Power Elite", but making them into tangible villains often seems to be a perversion of reality...
...Williams, 27, Michigan State; 6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs. Senior. Major: restaurant management. Drafted by the Los Angeles Rams back in 1956 on the strength of his play while serving a hitch in the Navy; so hefty and formidable on defense that opponents run plays away from him whenever possible...