Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special presidential assistant for atoms-for-peace. Replied Dwight Eisenhower in a letter of rare warmth accepting Strauss's resignation: "Thanks in large measure to your early awareness of the broadest military implications of nuclear science, the U.S. and other free nations are more secure against the threat of attack...
...billion defense appropriation, "we became aroused, humiliated, angry, frustrated and determined. Now the anger has cooled and the determination has been blunted." From a "peak of awareness and urgency," the U.S. has backslid to ''the humdrum plane of complacency." And complacency is dangerous. "The Soviet threat to our pre-eminence in industry, science and military striking power is steadily increasing. We have long been accustomed to think of the U.S. as occupying an unchallenged and unchallengeable position. We cannot afford to make such assumptions today...
...characteristic bit of legislative haggling, attempted to tie the general's hands by proposing that if he wanted to change the French constitution, he would have to have Assembly approval before his plan could be submitted to popular referendum. The manner in which De Gaulle beat off this threat-he rushed over to the Assembly and threatened to resign on the spot-was out of his old bag of tricks. He got his powers at 12:30 a.m., and by a 350 to 163 vote. Since this was a three-fifths majority, he was free to submit...
With Parliament under control-it went on a four-month "vacation" the following day-De Gaulle faced to the most overriding threat to public order: the continued defiance from Algiers. For four days, both in Paris and Algeria, he maneuvered endlessly to bring the 500,000 soldiers and 1,000,000 European civilians in Algeria back under the authority of the central government. (The general's only nonofficial appointment during this period: a brief chat with naval Lieut. Commander Philippe de Gaulle, *a gangling carbon copy of the Charles de Gaulle of 30 years ago.) By a virtuoso...
Before De Gaulle, as he well knew, lay a stern and pivotal mission. He hoped in time to end the Algerian Moslems' four-year-old war for independence. But first he had to end the threat of civil war posed by the insurgent French soldiers and settlers of Algeria. Only the day before, Leon Delbecque, dynamic leader of the rebel junta (TIME, June 9), his once boundless faith in De Gaulle shaken by his idol's failure to name a single insurgent leader to a government post, had appeared in Paris to warn the general that unless...