Word: tocsin
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...conference on "Understanding the Cold War" (sponsored, December 2 and 3, by the American Friends Service Committee, The Committee of Correspondence, and Tocsin), professor Stuart Hughee commented that during his visit to the USSR, just after the U-2 incident, many Russians assured him that they had no hostile images of the US: that indeed they objected to Khruschchev's demolition of the summit. From this evidence professor Hughes concluded that, if we could only rid our polley makers and ourselves of our own hostile image of the USSR, we would have made a major step toward world peace...
...alternative military or economic sanctions, proposing a mutually acceptable compromise, creating a commitment to an international Judicial body which proves so generally useful that particular disadvantageous decisions will be accepted In order to preserve the body, or finally, one of the other means for which the Friends, Sane, and Tocsin should new be searching...
There were frequent policy debates between people who maintained the same general position. For example, one Tocsin member spent a good deal of time trying to persuade a Tocsin sympathizer to abandon his belief in unilateral disarmament...
Throughout the day, many people appeared unsure of what Tocsin stood for. The term "unilateral initiative"--where the United States would take considered and controlled steps to reduce tensions that might lead to nuclear war--was confused with "unilateral disarmament"--where the United States would immediately give up all its nuclear weapons...
...result, the rhetoric of debate often appeared hazy, mutual misunderstanding often causing sympathizers with both sides--but rarely Tocsin walkers--to adopt extreme positions...