Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Governments Differ." The differences were greater than emphasis. There were basic differences of policy and they became clear a few days later when the conferees ended their talks and ceremoniously issued a "joint communiqué." Throughout the communiqué ran a brave effort to make the piercing contradictions come out on the same note. "There is no difference between us as to the nature of the threat. . . There can be no thought of apeasement or of rewarding aggression...
...just "cannot sing very well." He wrote: "Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality. She is extremely attractive on the stage. Yet . . . there are few moments during her recital when one can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, which is the end of the song...
...necessarily the answer the country would adopt, but one thing was certain. The present draft procedures would be tightened, and many of the nice exemptions, particularly those that shielded college students, would be dropped. And probably that law would be changed to make 18-year-olds subject to the draft. It would be a bitter pill for youngsters and their parents, but the nation had no other choice...
...should carry on a blockade of the Chinese coast and I hope our British friends will join us in that ... If any appeasement is needed, I would say that the British could make a very excellent gesture by offering Hong Kong to the Communists . . . I've been an interventionist for the last 20 years, but I think it will be very difficult to commit the U.S. to the land defense of continental Europe unless the other nations help us in the Far East...
...short life, the FCDA had already come under fire from the American Municipal Association, representing 10,500 nervous U.S. cities and towns. The association wanted to put civil defense into the Defense Department and make it co-equal with the Army, Navy and Air Force. General George Marshall wasn't interested: he considers civil defense a civilian problem...