Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the eyes of the world's millions following him as never before, Dwight Eisenhower flies out of Andrews Air Force Base, Md. in his VIP-styled Boeing 707 this week on his historic mission to eleven nations in Western Europe, South Asia and North Africa. First stop, for refueling: Goose Bay, Labrador. Second stop: Rome. Before he completes the circuit and touches home again, he will travel for 19 days through 19,600 miles by plane, 270 by helicopter, 1,500 by ship, 1,000 by train and car on the longest overseas trip ever made...
...felt "for many years" that it would be a "mistake" for the U.S. Government to advocate birth control in other countries. "We have to be very careful how we give advice on this subject," said he, noting that the U.S. has never urged birth control at home or in Western Europe. "Accordingly, I think it would be the greatest psychological mistake for us to appear to advocate limitation of the black, or brown, or yellow peoples whose population is increasing no faster than in the United States." If he were in the White House, presented by Congress with a foreign...
Premier Khrushchev may set the cat among the pigeons as he did by telling Soviet journalists fortnight ago that West Berlin "is situated on the territory" of the East German state. But any Western words or actions displeasing to Moscow -a U.S. Navy plane dropping flares near a Soviet tanker in the Pacific, a London hint that sending Russian scientists into British laboratories calls for reciprocity, a U.N. committee vote calling on Communist North Korea to allow free elections for unifying the country-cause Communist hands to be raised in righteous protest against "violation of the Camp David spirit." Recently...
...assure the security of Western Europe," wrote Charles de Gaulle in the final volume of his memoirs, it will be necessary for France "to lead into one political, economic and strategic grouping the states whose frontiers run with the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees...
...performance. It is with respect to the latter that I said that the present pedantry in the West is not likely to prove very appealing to the new nations. The whole point of my remarks, however, was that the United States could easily double its economic aid program, that Western Europe could participate at our present level and that this should be a joint effort...