Word: cautionings
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...action with U.N. sanction; in the field, it ended with tragic indecision. When he took over three years after the Korea decision, Hammarskjold, a Swedish diplomat whose name was not only unpronounceable but virtually unknown in the rest of the world, approached his task with modest caution. Few spotted the fire behind those distant blue eyes. Then came the 1954 U.N. resolution urging the release of the 15 U.S. airmen held prisoner in Communist China. Someone asked Hammarskjold if he planned to visit China in person to push the protest. "Wouldn't that be rather dramatic?" he inquired...
Last week Dr. Scharf stayed quiet, determined not to do or say anything that would endanger his possible return to East Germany at some later time, perhaps after a peace treaty with Russia is signed. Adding to his closemouthed caution was the presence of one of his daughters in East Germany's Potsdam, where she works in a hospital. But the West Berlin Senate, under no such wraps, made a blistering denunciation of this "most infamous form of deportation," calling the outlawing of the Evangelical Church "the last resort of a regime that no longer shrinks from any hypocrisy...
...businessmen agree. To justify their caution, the doubting minority point to a pair of continuing soft spots in the economy...
...untried cases that have been pending for at least three years), plenty of understandable complaints can be heard about the slow pace of the appointments. But the Administration, faced with a personnel problem that the American Bar Association has declared "staggering and completely unprecedented," intends to proceed with caution. "These judges are in for life," says Attorney General Robert Kennedy, "and we want to choose good ones. You never know, of course, how good a judge will be until he is on the bench. Maybe the 106 won't all be good-that's too much to hope...
...professed desire to parley, nothing Khrushchev said last week suggested a new basis for discussion of anything-except his own demands that East Germany be given total control over access to Berlin. Britain's slim and elegant Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, thought it necessary to caution his own people about being prematurely relieved by the prospects of talks: "It is really no good looking on the word negotiation as an incantation that can be repeated as if it might solve everything," he said. "So far, in all our contacts with the Russians, they have been willing only to talk...