Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator George W. Malone, who doesn't want statehood for Hawaii, says: "If we were to accept Hawaii, I am sure that less than 1% of the entire population would ever be able to visit the United States to observe life and conditions on the mainland [TIME, May 25]." His statement parallels another statistic: none of the boys from Hawaii who have died fighting for the mainland will ever observe life and conditions here...
Middle East. Churchill wants the Commonwealth to commit itself to the wartime defense of Suez, but members could not agree. Nehru and Mohammed Ali, both of whom plan to visit Egyptian Dictator Naguib on their way home from London, thought that, in Nehru's words, "progressive and controlled nationalism in the Middle East must not be thwarted." South Africa, however, worried that Russian land armies might one day storm across the Middle East and sweep through Africa, raising thousands of Mau Mau-style recruits along...
Last year Frau Ehrengard Schramm, a German historian, arrived in Greece to write a war history. She wanted to visit Kalavryta, but was warned not to; she went anyway. She met hostility but no harm. "They were simple in their sorrow," she said, "not fanatical. They had no self-pity, but their faces expressed so much sorrow my breath stopped." She talked with one woman whose husband and three sons had been killed. "Her figure," she said, "seemed to have turned to stone...
...Mayor Georgacopoulis tried to explain the purpose of the visit to his people. "His people want to make up for their crime," he said. "We must be courteous to him and try to forget the past." The women said little, but that night, as always, they left their jobs in stores, or their work in the meadows and orchards to trudge up the hill to the graves, there to lay fresh flowers, to kneel for prayers, or to light a candle in a little glass and tin box fastened to one of the small white crosses, all inscribed with...
After the first visit of Senator Jenner's Internal Security Subcommittee to Boston late in March, some 56 Massachusetts educators issued a statement claiming that congressional investigating committees "are contributing to a subtle breakdown in our democratic processes...