Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British informants said Iraq authorities have given assurance that Britain will not be ejected immediately from its Habbaniyah air base west of Baghdad. The British hope to negotiate an agreement keeping the base intact and giving them rights to fly over the oil fields...
Opinion here on Barbara Ward has ranged from the salutation of her 1957 honorary degree: "A charming lady whose respected voice and clear mind call the West to freedom through faith," to the more terse judgement from a younger faculty member: "She's vastly overrated...
...Jackson was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Felixtowe, England, later at the Lycee Moliere and the Sorbonne, Paris, and Sommerville College, Oxford. She received her degree in "PP and E" (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). Her book titles reflect her interest; among her published works are The West at Bay (1948), Policy for the West (1951), Faith and Freedom (1954), and Interplay of East and West...
...Since the situation is inherently revolutionary, it plays right into the hands of the Communists. It's 'just their meat'. But instead of taking any active stand, the West has tended to take the policy of find the enemy's policy and then stop him." The Western powers ought to seek their own, more positive foreign policy. If they fail to do this, they will be unable to cope with the new world situation. "If you don't recognize reality, it will defeat you," she says...
...Berlin crisis is a perfect illustration of this attitude. When Khrushchev suggested that Berlin be made a free city, the Western powers should have answered with "screams of delight." They should have said, "At last you Russians realize the value of international control, such as the West has been advocating all along. Of course, you want East Berlin included in the change." Such an approach would show a more aggressive and effective policy, not a mere "contentment with the very miserable status...