Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Macmilian's note to the Kremlin on the other hand said the British would be glad to take part in a summit conference "as soon as developments in the foreign ministers meeting warrant...
According to one enthusiastic member, the Liberal Union is the "oldest, cleanest, most active political organization on campus, without an election scandal yet." Its purpose is to "study an issue, take a stand, and then do something about it," and the HLU has strong ties to the Campus Americans for Democratic Action, which advocates such policies as extension of TVA principles to other river valleys, national health insurance, and establishment of a "comprehensive" federal scholarship program...
...Since the situation is inherently revolutionary, it plays right into the hands of the Communists. It's 'just their meat'. But instead of taking any active stand, the West has tended to take the policy of find the enemy's policy and then stop him." The Western powers ought to seek their own, more positive foreign policy. If they fail to do this, they will be unable to cope with the new world situation. "If you don't recognize reality, it will defeat you," she says...
Part of this aggressive new policy should take the form of an "organic link" between allied powers, including an "interlocking community of command." "Then there would be no fear of America pulling out of any operation, such as there is in Germany at present." This linkage should include all aspects of "common life," combining joint economic institutions and cultural links, such as common recognition of university degrees...
...newspaper's primary duty is to stay in business, because it can't take any stand on any moral issue if it isn't printed," Johnson said. He praised the "majority of responsible papers in the South" for choosing to survive instead of "going out in a blaze of glory...