Word: french
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abroad in order to win cold-war advantage. And until lately, European nations have talked poor mouth (Italy, for example, likes to bring up its own impoverished south, the Mezzogiorno, as one of the world's underdeveloped regions). Or they have insisted that British spending in the Commonwealth, French aid to its Community, and Belgian assistance to the Congo must be reckoned as each country's contribution to taking care of the rest of the world...
Polite But Hesitant. On his tour of Europe, Under Secretary Dillon was getting a polite hearing, and a general assent that it was time for Europeans to shoulder more of the burden. The British and French were happy to point a finger at West Germany as the laggard in West Europe's aid spending. In Bonn, key Cabinet members heard Dillon out sympathetically, but the new 1960 budget introduced in the Bundestag last week earmarked less than $25 million for direct governmental technical assistance to other countries. (NATO partner Germany also spends only one-fourth of its budget...
Shrewdly, the Afro-Asian bloc last fortnight submitted a bland resolution that did not mention independence or describe the rebel F.L.N. as a legitimate government. The French delegation, clinging steadily to its insistence that Algeria is part of France and hence none of the General Assembly's business, once again boycotted the debate. But Charles de Gaulle's offer of self-determination to Algeria (TIME, Sept. 28) had so strengthened France's moral posture that even Saudi Arabia's volatile Ahmad Shukairy, wildest of Arab orators, felt obliged to express his "esteem, tribute, and high regard...
Sixteen months ago, Charles de Gaulle swept grandly through France's black Africa empire-the biggest European holdings on the continent-offering self-government and membership in a new French Community. Only Sekou Toure's Guinea turned him down. De Gaulle was able to put together a Community of eleven autonomous African states, plus the island republic of Madagascar. What if they wanted independence? "You have only to ask for it," said De Gaulle...
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is one of many relatively obscure German writers who deserve respect in a literary world dominated by English and French authors. The reputation acquired by German writers even of the classic period of German literature has been one of an extreme stuffiness, and this reputation has naturally not aided German popularity. Lichtenberg as he is presented by Professors Mautner and Hatfield may in part dissolve this outdated notion...