Word: trading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While building a reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...
...Nationalist Chinese sources reported that he had brought along 15 carloads of gifts, including rare art and historical treasures from Peking's palaces and museums. But the two leaders undoubtedly had more important business to transact; it seemed likely that they would forge treaties of friendship, alliance and trade, and prepare fresh blows at the soft underbelly of the non-Communist world in East Asia...
...British are known to favor recognition, chiefly and frankly because they want to safeguard their large trading interests in China. Advocates of recognition in the U.S., whose China trade has always been relatively small, advance more speculative reasons. Most of them base their position on two assumptions: 1) the Chinese Communists, busy with staggering internal problems, are not likely soon to launch an expansionist policy in Asia; 2) Red Chinese Boss Mao Tse-tung is likely to become an Asian Tito. Therefore, argue the advocates of recognition-many of them in the U.S. State Department, which is still trying...
...East Cominform. "An unpleasant shape of things to come in Chinese foreign policy is ... gradually emerging . . . The Peking conference of Asian and Australasian trade unions [held Nov. 16-Dec. 1] marked out the main lines on which Chinese Communist activity is to develop. This conference . . . declared its support for the 'national liberation' forces in Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China and the Philippines ... It was finally decided to set up a permanent liaison bureau and secretariat, which . . . would serve as a 'general staff' for all the Communist-led revolutionary movements ... In fact, the Far East...
Back to the Old Trade. As a novice in his order, Fray José Francisco de Guadalupe had been startled to learn the extent of the chronic shortage of clergy in Roman Catholic South America; he found that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without a priest, some 40,000 parishes without pastors. His decision was to go back as a priest to the crowds and microphones he had given up. Since then he has carried his recruiting and fund-raising campaign into Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina...