Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asked the Sunday Express: "Will Ike now turn to Macmillan?" Answer: yes. Reason: "Too long has Ike let himself be known as a leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative American Secretary of State." Said the Daily Express: LEADERSHIP LIES LIKE A DISCARDED SCEPTER IN AMERICA TODAY...
...Broken Man." Said the Daily Herald: "Sick men can't rule the world . . . It is the West's tragedy that the President is NOT fit for service. At 68, America's wartime hero is a broken man, incapable of the energy required to grasp important matters for any length of time...
Faces set in determination, the three-member delegation from the directors of the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, West Germany's largest wire service, walked out of the board meeting in Cologne's posh Hotel Excelsior Ernst and up to the trim little man who had been waiting in the lobby. The man listened to only a few words before quietly interrupting: "I gather you want...
Fritz Sänger, 57, was absolutely right: after ten years, he was out as chief editor of D.P.-A.-and by last week the West German press bristled with charges that his firing was for reasons that were political, not professional...
...purge of Sänger rankled West German papers of widely varying political persuasions. "Scandalous," cried the non-partisan Protestant weekly Christ und Welt. "Our newspaper publishers who sit on the D.P.-A. board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent...