Word: provisos
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Dulles, giving Molotov no chance to blame the West for a failure at Geneva, chose to emphasize the points of seeming agreement ("a quite remarkable degree of parallel thinking"). "There is before us a realizable vision of security in Europe . . . provided-and of course this proviso is of the utmost importance-we can make similar progress with respect to the unification of Germany," Dulles declared. Molotov was forced to a "fallback position" that free elections would deprive East Germany's loyal citizens of the joys of Communism...
They should agree to renounce the use of atomic and hydrogen weapons." Vyacheslav Molotov was ready with seeming concessions. He accepted a Western disarmament point that atomic weapons, prior to prohibition, could be used for defense against aggression-but with the proviso that the U.N. Security Council (where Russia has a veto) is the sole arbiter of what constitutes an act of aggression...
Hanson pointed out that the CEEB program contains the proviso that individual colleges have the right to accept or reject the results of the new tests...
...Western diplomats promptly skewered the Soviet maneuver for the impossible thing it was. The State Department noted that only a few weeks ago at Berlin, Molotov had lambasted NATO and introduced his pan-European pact idea with the specific proviso that the U.S. should be excluded except as an "observer." Now he was switching decks. "It is a maneuver," said the U.S. spokesman, "to gain admittance within the walls of the West, to undermine its security...
...people of Benton City and the surrounding towns equip a small, six-bed hospital-clinic. Chalmers will then rent the hospital, get another doctor to join him. He hopes to assure the hospital of some funds by qualifying it as a treatment center for industrial-hospitalization plans. An added proviso: the town will take over Dr. Chalmers' bookkeeping...