Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Right to Choose. Ike's final point was a promise of continued nonintervention, along with an oblique reference to Cuba and all nations that accept "the fatalistic concept of the omnipotent state and the omnipotent fate." Said he: "You of Brazil and we of my country do not say that this philosophy shall not be held: that peoples may not return to that unenlightened system of tyranny, if they wish. We would feel a great sorrow for them, but we would respect their right to choose such a system. Here is the key to our policy-the right...
...change is under way. The U.S. now aims most of its aid at poorer lands that support big armies, and richer NATO partners that accept missiles (and thus share the risk of becoming Soviet targets themselves). The top eight for fiscal 1960 in millions of dollars worth of aid deliveries...
What Bonn's allies officially thought was muffled in the need to preserve the spirit of partners. Most Western Europeans had reluctantly come to accept U.S. bases in Spain as necessary to the defense of the West, but they were not prepared to make any such allowances for Germany, mindful of the bonds that once linked Franco and Hitler and the Nazi airmen of the Condor Legion who helped bring Franco to power. In London, 140 Opposition M.P.s signed a resolution protesting Strauss's plan, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself expressed his disapproval to visiting German parliamentarians...
...lawyer or administrator who might move into high office with skill and confidence; yet the Congolese become completely independent on June 30. There, and in other areas, the danger of bloodshed, violence, and retrogression is great as the scramble for leadership and power begins. But Africa no longer will accept such doubts as a valid reason for putting off independence. From millions of throats came the over whelming message-here we come, ready...
...trouble, for, after all, he is a mere youngster in the eyes of some Kikuyu politicians, who were fighting for African rights before Mboya was born. Cautiously, Tom says: "I have never represented myself as a replacement for Kenyatta. When he comes back, we will all accept him as our leader," and he adds: "It does not make much difference to me. I am not in this for personal gain." One Kenyatta associate says that Jomo, a man of harsh action, "does not like Mboya's talk-talk-talk way of doing things...