Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Live Peace." In his brief airport statement, Ike delivered his theme message of "peace and friendship in freedom," noted that in the U.S. more than 10 million Italian-descended citizens claim heritage "from the Italian civilization." Then he got into Gronchi's official Fiat, drove the long way into Rome along the Old Appian Way-the historic route. Crowd turnout in the heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only...
Thus we provide a peaceful barrier, erected by freedom, to the continuous probings of predatory force. Our mutual undertakings support those who strive to forestall aggression, subversion and penetration. It helps steady the struggling economies of free nations new and old. It helps build strength and hope, preventing collapse and despair. In a world sorely troubled by an atheistic imperialism, it is a strong instrument of hope and of encouragement to others who are eager, with us, to do their part in sustaining the human spirit and human progress...
...fortunate in having an economy so richly productive as to sustain a most powerful defense without impairment of human values. Without this military strength our efforts to provide a shield for freedom and to preserve and strengthen peace would be futile. We are determined that in quality and power this force shall forever be kept adequate for our security needs until the conference table can replace the battlefield as the arbiter of world affairs...
...last thought. We have heard much of the phrase, "peace and friendship." This phrase, in expressing the aspirations of America, is not complete. We should say instead, "peace and friendship, in freedom." This, I think, is America's real message to the world...
...campaign oratory as no one else does: fortnight ago, emerging from 45 days of fasting and contemplation, he coincidentally had a new batch of speeches ready, mixing pleas for devotion with appeals for votes. He stumped hard for his "clean" faction of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, which ruled Burma for eleven years. His chief opponents: party dissidents who call themselves the league's "stable" group, led by 44-year-old "Big Tiger" U Ba Swe, once U Nu's deputy. U Nu traveled up and down assuring voters that in meditating he "became humble...