Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...council of the new Administration's defense chiefs, civilian and military, to "reexamine" U.S. defense programs in the light of Soviet policies and "the rapid pace of technological change." He would "work with these leaders." said Nixon, to develop "policies that will insure that America, already militarily the strongest nation in the world, will maintain this superiority...
Kennedy: Vice-President Nixon and I are agreed on this issue. Just let me add that this country has never been in a worse position as regards the Soviet Union. What we need is strong, new youthful leadership to get us out of this mess. To quote Franklin D. Roosevelt, to whom I bear a striking resemblance: "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny...
Closely related to the desirability of adaptive policies is a second and more important consideration. The Soviet Union--both its leaders and its people--must not, as experts caution, be viewed simply as a monolithic conspirator on the world stage. The inhabitants have fears and beliefs, both real and forged, but sufficient to cause them to react to every move on our part quite as we react to every move on theirs. A shelter program of the size required to make it effective would provoke the Russians not unreasonably to a defensive anger, give them (and uncommitted nations) greater reason...
Goody has not yet worked out all the details of his trip. He is still waiting for a visa to travel in the Soviet Union, but, he declared, the visa will almost certainly be granted...
Meanwhile the Soviet Union is actually doing something concrete to help the Algerians. "The Russians are not giving me stories," Chanderli declared, "they are giving me food." He emphatically maintained that the FLN would utilize whatever aid they could get, whether American or Soviet...