Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position shared by many U.S. strategists, but not by U.S. military policy makers (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...king, but so many monarchs have been socially disqualified-either for thronelessness, chasing starlets or consorting with the nation's enemies-that there is seldom a chance to singe one with the full, hot blast of democratic hospitality. Last week, however, U.S. officialdom, U.S. hostesses, and U.S. foreign-relations societies had converged with a shout on the genuine article. The target: the Shah of Iran...
...party protected business against cutthroat domestic competition by granting patents, and against foreign competition by levying tariffs. It won other votes by handouts: land to farmers as free homesteads, Treasury funds to Union soldiers as pensions. It won election after election. "What could you do with a party that had emancipated the slave, saved the Union, given everybody a bounty in land or tariff, assured businessmen of prosperity and poor men of a full dinner pail...
...Suite A on the 37th floor of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, one of the postwar era's longest, most secretive conferences was entering its third year. High above Park Avenue, the deputies of the Big Four Foreign Ministers have been trying to write a peace treaty for Austria. Last week, as they moved into their green leather chairs for their 238th meeting, some news filtered out of Suite A, and it sounded good. There had been some concessions on both sides...
...stockpile vital materials (steel, chemicals), which the West considered necessary for Austria's recovery; the West had agreed to let Russia have a large share in Austria's oil production and prospecting rights. Some questions remained to be settled: e.g., whether Austria should be allowed to hire foreign technicians to help reconstruct her economy...