Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...qualities of discipline, will power and deep faith that make General Johnson [Dec. 10] an outstanding man are the qualities that Western intellectuals seem bent on destroying. With their preaching of self-indulgence, they constitute a greater threat than Communism. Americans can be thankful they have leaders like Harold Johnson...
...Viet Nam far transcends Viet Nam. From the Rhine to the Mekong River, 42 nations of the free world have formal military alliances with the U.S. Each rests on Washington's pledge of physical protection. If that assurance has, after two decades, lost much of its immediacy for Western Europe, it is nevertheless an assurance that can not exist if it is half doubted and half believed. If the Pax Americana is to be credible anywhere, it must be credible everywhere...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk pointed out in Paris last week that the American commitment to South Viet Nam is indivisible from the American commitment to Western Europe's independence. In a forceful summation of all the free world's unlearned lessons over the past three decades, Rusk reminded NATO's Foreign Ministers at their year-end council meeting: "Ask yourself what your national interests are in the Viet Nam conflict. Ask yourself what were our interests in Manchuria in 1931 and in Ethiopia in 1936. Ask yourself what were your national interests as Hitler made...
...WESTERN EUROPE...
Residents of Las Vegas profess to be undisturbed by their town's sincity reputation. They euphemize gambling into "gaming," and stress upbeat touches such as the way Craps Dealer Ralph Hicks ends his trick at The Golden Nugget and rushes off to preside as president of the Western High School P.T.A...