Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Once again, this time in South Africa, the soft underbelly of the Western "free" nations reveals a startling and potentially dangerous weakness. Race tensions and hatreds, while long played down as having no real effect on the ability of the Western alliance to oppose Communism, flare forth as a glaring reminder that this could be the Achilles' heel that Khrushchev has been looking for. It is a situation made to order for those trying to sell Communism as the panacea for all the tragic ills suffered by the black man at the hands of "democratic" governments...
More and more editorial voices urged that Britain should forthwith seek membership in the Common Market, arguing in effect, "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em." British businessmen, skeptical of the government's dreams of a compromise bridge between the Six and the Seven, are making a separate peace by opening factories within the Common Market or linking up with Common Market firms...
...effect, Debré was attempting to assure Algeria's Europeans and the loyal Moslems who side with them that they would not be left at the mercy of the F.L.N. if they voted to remain with France and lost. To Moslems who might vote for outright independence, it was a warning that their victory would not give them the whole cake; the oil regions and rich farm areas would in all likelihood stay in French hands, leaving the apostles of independence only the Moslem-dominated areas, which are mostly desert, mountains, and arid land...
...idealized future without the certainty that there was any future to work for. But, whether or not anything was accomplished during the 1955 summit negotiations, they did, in time, precipitate a marked shift in the public attitude—a relaxation of tension which is just now taking effect...
Robert Presnell's script is a deplorable masterpiece of tears and terrors that in effect resets the Biblical Massacre of the Innocents as a sort of Our Gang Tragedy, and just for good measure throws in what looks like an Alfred Hitchcock ver sion of the Flight into Egypt...