Word: forethought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moral Ramparts. To get the Middle East stabilized, the U.S. backed the Canadian plan for a 6,000-man U.N. police force. With careful forethought the President had held strongly that this police force should be recruited only from volunteer small powers so that 1) Arab-Asians would not be able to cry colonialism; 2) Russians would not be able to demand inclusion to balance any contingent from the U.S. Shortly after the U.N. General Assembly endorsed the police force (64-0), Eisenhower, with U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's approval, ordered U.S. military transports to pick...
Twin Peaks. Under such fundamental forethought, the big philanthropy proliferated around the U.S. and the world. One ten-year massive demonstration by doctors and mobile dispensaries in the South, and hookworm was gone. The Rockefeller Foundation, finally chartered by New York State in 1913 (the U.S. Congress denied a federal charter, believing that no good could come out of Rockefellers), promptly exploited the success in the South and sent out task forces against hookworm all over the world. New successes taught new methods of disease control, which the foundation flung into battle against yellow fever in Ecuador, scarlet fever...
Recommended reading and an excellent traveling companion for those touring Europe: Years of Trial and Hope by Harry S. Truman. Preface-"Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the forethought of the greatest statesmen...
...through-on the theory that the tanks would not endanger the peace of the Middle East. "Utterly beyond our comprehension," Israel's embassy reiterated. The U.S. might fairly conclude of the week's display of off-again-on-again diplomacy that it was also utterly without forethought...
...stunned crowd went back to its form charts and tried to figure just how it had overlooked those South American visitors. The Laurel band, to its credit, recovered first. "Let us all stand," stuttered an announcer as the band broke into Gloria al Bravo Pueblo. Someone had had the forethought to supply the music of the Venezuelan national anthem...