Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Soft music wafted from loudspeakers, through streets gaily arched in colored lights, over children tumbling in the snow, across the city preparing to holiday. On the Eve of Christmas, Brussels looked serene and secure, but, like the rest of the world, Brussels felt the underlying fear and tension. Inside the rococo Hotel Metropole, in an atmosphere of crisis, the Foreign Ministers and military chiefs of the twelve Atlantic pact nations met this week to set up the long-delayed military force for defense against Communism...
...Britain, vaccination with BCG has been adopted by the Ministry of Health as an official preventive measure against TB. A major fear among many U.S. doctors, who have thus far not been able to make up their minds about it, is that universal acceptance of the vaccine might lead the public to neglect other preventive measures, most importantly the constant effort to track down the disease by widespread X-ray chest examination...
...Western occupation and "equal partnership" in European defense. This meant that the Germans-again-had been put in a position where their legitimate desire for a means to defend themselves could be satisfied only if they played the dangerous game of working on the West's fear of Russia...
...faithful: "Hate the U.S., for she is the deadly enemy of the Chinese people. Despise the U.S., for she is a rotten imperialist nation . . . Look with contempt on the U.S., for she is a paper tiger and can fully be defeated . . ." The Journal added that China should not fear superior U.S. resources. "This superiority," it explained ominously, "is only temporary . . . After the [Communist] liberation of [Western] Europe, the total steel production of the Soviet Union and [its allies] will reach 67 million-odd tons, which means almost a parity with the amount produced...
Bothered by lack of funds and the fear of a "shabby, stingy bimillenary," Novelist Jules (Men of Good Will) Romains resigned his job as head of the planning committee to celebrate Paris' 2,000th anniversary next year...