Word: aid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odds in foreign policy, now find themselves accenting what they have in common: they are the world's two largest democracies. Both threw off British rule. In Gandhi and in Lincoln, each has a national hero whose qualities of charity, compassion and gentleness both nations revere. U.S. aid to India, once grudgingly given and grudgingly received, has accelerated rapidly of late, is now past the $2 billion mark. As Indians get over their new-nation sensitivity about needing economic help, some even recognize the justice of the U.S. desire to see that the money is prudently spent...
...tradition: he has probably attended Sandhurst, speaks with an Oxford accent, plays polo and cricket, wears a mustache and carries a swagger stick. The first-rate Indian air force uses British twin-jet Canberra bombers and French Mystere jet fighters -all obtained by purchase, since Nehru believes that military aid would compromise India's traditional neutrality...
...hesitate to send troops to put down the Hungarian revolution of 1848 . . . How could we, the working people of the Soviet Union, suffer our troops to look on indifferently in 1956 when the best sons of your people were being hanged? If we had not come to your aid, we would have been called fools, and history would not have forgiven us this foolishness...
...recommendation fromOregon's Senator Wayne Morse, visiting in Buenos Aires, that the U.S. aid state oil monopolies, such as Argentina...
Claims Staked. Three presidential hopefuls have staked out claims on the area. In Puerto Rico last week, Senator Hubert Humphrey proposed a program of greater economic aid, arms reductions, a review of U.S. trade and tariff policies. Adlai Stevenson will tour Latin America in February. Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department's 1940-44 coordinator of inter-American affairs, recently suggested a single common market embracing the U.S. and the 20 Latin American states. Other high-level concern...