Word: assertiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morocco. "I spent five years in Morocco from 1941-1945 . . . President Roosevelt came to the Casablanca conference in January 1943, and with the recklessness of a schoolboy told the Sultan he should assert his independence of the French . . . This was like throwing a Roman candle into a barrel of gasoline." Childs's recommendation: the U.S. should abandon its "Alice in Wonderland policy," which is undermining the French administration. Instead, the U.S. should promote "greater liberty for the Moroccans, within the framework of the French Union, without inciting the Moroccans to open rebellion, which has only been to the advantage...
...would India, Indonesia, and other such nations think of the war Eisenhower's order makes possible? In Asia, Chiang has long been identified with corruption, with tyranny (the self which ignores its subjects welfare), with almost every political vice the Asians can conceive. It will do no good to assert Chiang's new-found virtue, especially since that is doubtful anyway, nor to protest that the accusations are false, especially since many of them are quite true. Asia's contempt for Chiang is a fact, something the State Department must consider as it considers the fact of Communism itself...
...Supreme Court. Last week they exhausted one of the few legal maneuvers remaining-an appeal to Judge Kaufman to reduce their sentences from death to imprisonment. Said the judge: "I have seen nothing ... to cause me to change the sentence . . . The defendants, still defiant, assert that they seek justice, not mercy. What they seek, they have attained...
...good fortune has been that the local officialdom agrees with us, or at least that it goes along far enough to grant us independence. It is true, of course, that the College has at times tried to assert control, but these assaults have come only spasmodically. Whether relief in those cases came from higher officials or from the deans' self-restraint is obscure, but what is important is that all such attempts have failed...
...quarter of a century ago, when Claus was busy "spreading good cheer and good wishes" in a department store, he was forced for the first time to take legal action to assert his rights. The opinion of the court sets forth the situation...