Word: unificationism
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What would a real rapprochement mean? First of all, it could be the first step toward realizing an old Arab dream: unification of all the Arab lands on the "fertile crescent" between Iran and the Mediterranean. More immediate, perhaps, was a threat to British influence in the Middle East. Iraq...
Adenauer's Nightmare. But the Kremlin's new rulers, shrewdly turning necessity into advantage, and defense into offense, had also made the most dramatic maneuver yet in their global peace offensive. One obvious intention: to make the prospect of German unity seem so real that the bulk of...
First to appear outside the U.S. correspondents' billets in Seoul one day last week were ranks of pigtailed schoolgirls, trim and neat in starched white uniforms. While a few girls passed out handbills in English, leaders with cardboard megaphones set up a steady chant: "Puk chin, tong il (March...
"Being Foolish." U.N. military and diplomatic observers, many of whom had sympathized with the old man's stand, were angered by his conduct last week. U.S. officials were also angered when Rhee insinuated that President Eisenhower's promise of a post-armistice mutual-security pact was worthless. Even...
After three years of fighting and two years of intermittent haggling, the Korean war neared its end, only a few thousand yards from where it had begun. There was no victory. At a staggering cost in life (including 24,000 Americans killed) and property, the United Nations had upheld a...