Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the Federal Government there was a new ferment, as everybody from Eisenhower on down headed the same way: toward a long-term concept of force-in-being that soon came to be known as the New Look. The key to the New Look was atomic warfare-tactical as well as strategic-whereby U.S. power could be strengthened while manpower levels held steady. The inevitable implication of the New Look was a re-emphasis on air-sea power (Air Force, Navy) and de-emphasis of ground power (Army) that led eventually to the Army's ill-fated "Revolt...
...moves on toward August, when his second and (by law) final term on the J.C.S. is due to expire, Radford sometimes plunks forward into the future of American life and American defense, now inextricably intertwined. Says he: "We haven't seen anything yet." Then Radford turns back to the meaning of what George Washington, the first Commander in Chief, had said as he confronted the turbulence of the Old World and got the American Experiment on the way. "There is a rank due to the United States among nations," said Washington, "which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost...
...Middle East. Moslem monarch of the hour, he bore all the prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent reception in Washington. After regal stops in Spain and North Africa, he wall head toward Nasser's Cairo. There the two leaders of the Arab world will meet-with their allies President Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan-to hear of Saud's magic-carpet travels...
Delighted as they were by Britain's change of heart, toward Europe, many OEEC nations were far from delighted by British insistence that only industrial goods should move freely within the Free Trade Area. (This would allow Britain to continue giving "imperial preference" to the agricultural products which make up nearly 90% of her imports from the Commonwealth.) A Free Trade Area that excluded agriculture, warned Jens Otto Krag of agricultural Denmark, would be "quite unacceptable." Eccles had been quite candid about why the farmer would still be protected: "Agriculture is never far from the minds of the politicians...
...amount of last-minute patchwork, however, could disguise the fact that the Communists and their front men still held the first mortgage on Pietro Nenni and his party. Said angry Giuseppe Saragat: "The voting figures speak clearly: 30% of the Socialist Party tends toward social democracy; 70% tends toward or is actually anchored to pro-Communism." As for reuniting all of Italy's Socialists, said Saragat. this would now be "enormously delayed...