Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astonishing statistic, he traveled 559,988 miles on his mission. High in the sky, far from the minutiae of State Department administration, he could sort out basic policies, could weigh the strengths, problems and needs of the nations and leaders he had just seen-many of them, such as West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and Nationalist China's Chiang Kaishek, his friends. High in the sky he could also slip into a sweater and carpet slippers, read his detective stories, sip rye on the rocks, play the inevitable backgammon with Janet, or make plans to stop...
...after his masterful Suez speech at the U.N.-he suffered the first abdominal pains of his fateful illness. Next day Walter Reed surgeons removed a malignant lesion from the lower intestine. Last February, after a sharp attack of diverticulitis, he flew to London, Paris, Bonn to consult with the West's leaders and to inspire new unity and new firmness on Berlin; he could scarcely walk, scarcely eat. "If it isn't cancer," he told a friend before leaving, "then I feel the trip is too important to put off. If it is cancer, then additional discomfort doesn...
EURf Proclaimed World Refugee Year in the U.S. starting July i, sponsored a White House conference at which Minnesota's Republican Representative Walter Judd, onetime medical missionary in China, urged the West to do its utmost to help refugees from Communist aggression. "Every refugee who comes out,-". said Judd, "is a vote for our society and a vote against their society." ¶ Avoided the strong prospect of having an Eisenhower veto overridden for the first time during his Administration by signing a railroad retirement bill ($150 to $200 million more annual benefits) that he and most of his advisers...
Giving away nothing, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko tried a feeble side game of trying to drive a wedge between Britain and the other Western powers. The Russians lost no opportunity to point out to U.S., French and West German diplomats how well Gromyko and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd got along, regularly praised Lloyd's speeches as "reasonable" and "well thought...
With the inadvertent aid of the 1,100 newsmen in Geneva, most of whom found little to write about beyond tactical differences among the Western powers, the Russian ploy was successful enough to provoke London's BBC into an irate accusation that the West Germans were conducting a "whispering campaign" against the British delegation. But with the foreign ministers themselves, the Russian maneuver was a flat failure: Selwyn Lloyd argued the West's case as stoutly as anyone. When Gromyko approached Lloyd privately to reiterate Khrushchev's proposals for Berlin, Lloyd coldly replied: "If that...