Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barbarity in Hungary. Such condemnation was the U.S.'s sole weapon, "since the alternative was action on our part which might initiate the third and ultimate world war." The Freedom Fighters of Budapest, said Nixon, won a great victory in the battle for men's minds. "The lesson is etched in the mind and seared in the souls of all mankind. Can it be seriously suggested that any nation in the world today would trust the butchers of Budapest...
...heard the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe lending them encouragement. A close scrutiny of propaganda broadcasts would undoubtedly show that no promise had been made to come to their aid if they started something, but desperate people might not have noticed this final omission. The real lesson of the June 1953 revolt in East Germany and of the Poznan riots in Poland last summer was that the U.S., for all its sympathy (a quality easy to ridicule when it is not backed up by something stronger) was not prepared to go to the rescue of an armed uprising...
Adaptable as they are, Soviet diplomats doubtless learned a useful lesson from last week's U.N. deliberations: tyranny may be beyond the reach of the U.N. but a breach of parliamentary manners is risky business...
Humphrey, Douglas, et al may learn a lesson from Johnson's affirmation that legislative programs must be achieved in Congress. On the Senate floor they will have an opportunity to advance a liberal Democratic platform, and in that house's working they may be able to put much of it into...
...PRESIDENT EISENHOWER A MESSAGE URGING HIM TO SPEAK OUT, TO USE THIS MORAL AUTHORITY TO OBTAIN IMMEDIATE U.N. ACTION, TO BROADCAST IN HIS VOICE A WARNING AGAINST REPRISALS. THE INFLUENTIAL U.S. PRESS MUST URGE SIMILAR ACTIONS BY EISENHOWER. THE HUNGARIAN STUDENTS, WORKERS AND WRITERS HAVE GIVEN THE WORLD A LESSON IN SIMPLE COURAGE THAT SHAMES ALL INACTION. WE HAILED THEIR FIRST TRIUMPH ; WE MUST ACT TO HALT THE SHEDDING OF THEIR BLOOD...