Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France. Warmed by the spring sun, many British and French had somehow fallen into a hazy, hopeful dream that everything could be settled at Geneva if only nothing was done to alarm the shy Communists. To them, Dulles, with his call for "united action" before Geneva and a joint warning to Communist China, came as an insistent intruder. The jittery press talked of "ultimatum," conjured visions of H-bombs dropped on Peking unless the Chinese Communists withdrew their aid to Ho Chi Minh...
...words were well chosen. The first British reaction was relief that Dulles' joint warning had been averted. In the House of Commons, Eden himself discreetly pointed out that he had avoided "some fulminating declaration." The Economist congratulated him on this "very adroit piece of evasive action." To the U.S. delegation, however, the declaration meant that Britain has in effect agreed to 1) the idea of a Pacific "NATO." 2) some kind of collective military action against China as a possibility if Geneva fails, 3) steps to be taken at once to set up the Pacific alliance as a warning...
Yale has joined Harvard in refusing to joint he NCAA football television program, the Yale Daily News has revealed in a copyrighted article...
This ban again came into prominence when the Boston Symphony Orchestra signed up with NBC. Because of the Orchestra's new status the Glee Club's joint concerts run afoul of the University ruling. But in view of the mutual advantages of the concerts, Dean Watson has indicated that the Administration may waive the regulation in this case...
Only Siam responded promptly to the State Department's invitation to a joint statement. But there was new debate and soul-searching in all the free countries of the world. The Vietnamese government itself was strengthened when an important bloc of local fence-sitters decided to support the fight against Ho Chi Minh. In France, the anti-Communists spoke up more boldly. For the first time the French, noting that the Chinese Communists were already providing artillery and antiaircraft guns at besieged Dienbienphu, were saying that the war had entered a new phase and might be "internationalized," if necessary...