Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gentlemen: We are unable currently to give you any significant facts about your business. You will understand that this is not our fault. In the matter of product, our technicians are so busy that they have been unable to agree on a model. In the matter of manpower, our labor troubles have been such that we have been unable to figure costs . . . Even if we had decided what we were to make and how we were to make it, our conclusions would be tentative until reviewed by the . . . directors . . . Even if we knew what we were going...
...bigger and better job is done, by U.S. private enterprise as well as government, there is clear danger that we shall again, as in China, lose the war of ideas - and the support of the illiterate millions whom we have not yet learned to talk to in ways they understand." Cordially yours...
...protect their border. "We are in very considerable difficulties," Acheson said. "We must clear away any misunderstanding that there may be in the minds of the Chinese. Everything in the world," he said, in the statement beamed directly at Peking, was being done to make the Communist Chinese "understand that their proper interests will be taken care...
With the air of a man who was sure he had hold of a simile any schoolboy could understand, the Secretary continued...
...time of the Chinese revolution of 1911 ("Tibet thereafter depended entirely on her isolation, her faith in the wisdom of Lord Buddha, and occasionally on support of the British in India for her protection"), denounced the Reds' "unwarranted act of aggression," appealed for U.N. aid because "we understand the United Nations have decided to stop aggression wherever it takes place...