Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close watch and a cool head. In stern and unequivocal language he warned Russia's Bulganin that any intervention by Russian troops in the Middle East war was "unthinkable"'; he added afterwards that any Russian move against Austria would be considered by the U.S. as "a grave threat to peace." Meanwhile he worked patiently to repair the physical and moral basis of the Western alliance, so as to confront the probing Russians with a united Western front. In a decisive speech on the crisis from the White House (see page 29), Eisenhower proclaimed to all sides: "There...
...election the bits and pieces of the crisis were beginning to fit back into place as the British and French agreed to order a ceasefire. No nation, the free world had relearned, could afford to divert its attention very long or very far from the Soviets, always the threat, always implacable, always there...
...Nasser's appeal for "volunteers"-gave urgency to the efforts of peacemakers. The U.S. and Britain and France got back together again, after a week in which the U.S. and its two principal allies were tragically apart. They were drawn together by the need to meet the common threat from Russia...
Bulganin's note shocked all Britain. In this new emergency, Labor argued that Britain must swiftly restore its damaged alliances and end its own provocative behavior in order to create the necessary unity against the common threat from Russia. Anthony Eden, announcing Britain's acceptance of a cease-fire in Egypt, turned on Bulganin. At a time when Russia is "ruthlessly crushing the heroic resistance of a truly national movement of independence" in Hungary, said Eden, "it ill becomes the Soviet government to speak of the actions of Her Majesty's Government as barbaric...
Judson T. Shaplin '42, Assistant Dean of the School of Education and an elected member of Cambridge's School Committee, made the threat after Curry refused to assume responsibility for expenses which the committee contends are not connected with education...