Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the U.S. prepared to go to the United Nations General Assembly to lay out its case for defending stability and order in the beleaguered Middle East. With a strong symbol of achievement in Nautilus, with diplomatic decks cleared of Khrushchev's summit trip wires, the U.S. could hope against hope that the free world could now get on with the business of achieving order, prosperity and independence in the Middle East...
...White House staff to found a Rule of Law Center at North Carolina's Duke University, the President took the occasion to spell out his longstanding faith that worldwide recognition of the rule of law offers man's best hope for a sustained and just peace. Concrete symbol of his interest: he named Larson special presidential consultant charged with the responsibility for reporting on what way the Federal Government could best help in bringing the faith to fruition...
Throughout their country's heartbreaking history of being partitioned, conquered, occupied and finally reduced to a satellite, the Poles have clung tenaciously to the Roman Catholic Church, not only as their faith, but also as the most enduring symbol of their fervent nationalism. Almost the first thing that Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka did when he came to power after the anti-Soviet uprisings of 1956 was to release Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski from detention and give to Poland, which is 95% Catholic, a degree of religious freedom unknown in any other Communist nation. That was a concession...
...Symbol. The next job was to make his decision known to the nation. Next morning, as U.S. marines were landing on the beaches of Lebanon, Ike authorized Press Secretary James Hagerty to tell newsmen, followed this up with a message to Congress and a filmed address that was telecast and broadcast across the country. "It is recognized that the step now being taken may have serious consequences," he told Congress bluntly. "I have, however, come to the considered and sober conclusion that despite the risks involved this action is required to support the principles of justice and international law upon...
...This is the President . . . You are in Lebanon because the U.S. has responded to an urgent request from Lebanon . . . a free nation . . . While you are in Lebanon, each of you is a personal representative of the U.S.-a symbol of the national aspirations for freedom for all people ... It will be a trying time for all of you. I know that. But I also know that you are American servicemen, trained to do your duty to your country. Through me, our people here at home thank you. God bless...