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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he took office in 1957. In characteristic fashion he quietly set about shifting foreign-aid policies that had been backed by the full prestige of the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations. There were no dramatic sessions; at every opportunity he simply called attention to the problem. Last spring he began inviting Administration leaders to conferences and lectures. At first the State Department was horrified at the prospect of revising foreign-aid policy (and some of its staffers still are), but Anderson found a sympathetic listener in Under Secretary (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon, longtime international banker both on Wall...
...assembled newsmen De Gaulle began with a 15-minute "preliminary statement," made without notes, that turned out to be almost word for word like a mimeographed summary handed to the newsmen as they came in. In the constitution of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, the general had seen to it that as President his would be the right to define France's foreign policy, and his monarchic-type "press conference"-more an audience with an articulate and intellectual head of state-was his chosen forum for doing so. He had a great deal of news to make...
Russians. "After many years of international tension," began De Gaulle, "some signs of an easing of the situation are visible on the part of the Soviet world." Most important cause of the new Russian attitude, suggested De Gaulle, is the personality of Nikita Khrushchev, "discerning as he does that at the supreme level of responsibility," peace "is the supreme realism." But along with this tribute to his future guest, De Gaulle coolly offered the opinion that Russia had good cause to be conciliatory toward the West, since, internationally, the Soviets are leading from several weaknesses. There are the natural aspirations...
...Pope. Several weeks ago a Bank of America officer moved into the village, quietly began listing everyone entitled to stock- from 18-month-old Orietta Perasso to 90-year-old Giovanni Ferretto. Unaccustomed to stocks and banks, or for that matter to generous, impulsive gestures from strangers, the villagers were suspicious. But last week all save a few skeptics donned feast-day clothes to sign their names-or "X"-to their Bank of America stock certificates. Few had decided what to do with their money. "We wait until tomorrow," said one peasant. "I might buy a suit." allowed another...
Over the centuries, the pattern hardly changed-until the tides of African nationalism began to lap even at the borders of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon. Though the Belgians never seriously interfered with the old order, the schools they opened gave the Muhutus some new notions about their old masters. In 1957 the Muhutus even formed their own political party. The Watutsis in turn also organized, began badgering Brussels to give them autonomy at once while they still had the Muhutus firmly under their thumb. The last thing they wanted was for Brussels to push through...