Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once, long ago, Sir Winston Churchill asked Adenauer: "Mr. Chancellor, if you had one wish, what would it be?" Adenauer replied without hesitation: "A strong France." He believed that working with a strong France would be difficult, but with a weak France, impossible...
...convinced that France had shown itself weak, and his patience was ended. Politically endangered and personally disillusioned, he summoned his Cabinet to the Black Forest and spoke for 45 minutes in a waspish voice that grew especially cutting when he alluded to the French. The meeting, scheduled for an hour, stretched into four. Minister after minister rose to contribute his sense of outrage, and the improvised Cabinet room in the hotel swelled with heady, confident talk of Germany resurrected. Next morning, in a formal communiqué, the Adenauer government announced that it would seek restoration of sovereignty and rearmament within...
Immediately, Dulles discovered that his draft of the pact, which was too strong for those who stayed away, was too weak for some who came. The American draft contained no provision for automatic action in case of aggression, as NATO does, but provides for emergency consultation and measures by each nation within its constitutional bounds. Dulles explained that, for SEATO, he could not persuade Congress to ratify a NATO-style treaty...
...demonstration in Morris County was but another step in the New Jersey Republican Party's efforts toward self-destruction. In 1953 G.O.P. leaders threw away the governorship by putting up a weak candidate, New Jersey Turnpike Builder Paul Troast. This year a party faction that had learned the lesson of 1953 got able, popular Cliff Case to resign from a $40,000-a-year Ford Foundation job and take the nomination for the U.S. Senate. A short time later, after Case issued a statement attacking Joe McCarthy, the Old Guard faction began to make trouble...
...announced aim of the anti-Case forces is to drive him out of the race. A suggested replacement: former U.S. Representative Fred Hartley Jr. (of Taft-Hartley). But even the leaders of the movement know that they cannot force Case out. Their long-range aim: to make Case look weak so that they can seize control of the party if he loses...