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...recalled to the State Department in Washington, was made a divisional assistant in charge of "economic warfare in Latin America" -watching Axis business operations in the whole area. Just before the war ended, Mann went to Mexico City for the Chapultepec Conference. That meeting set down the concept for a U.S.-Latin American defense plan that was to become the Rio Treaty of 1947-still the Western Hemisphere's key joint-defense document...
...stand against a two-China policy. They argued that it would encourage a rush by other nations to recognize Peking, insisted that since "our national policy is to liberate the mainland of China and to deliver our compatriots from Communist tyranny, we are strongly opposed to any two-China concept...
...part of his youth, to address 1,300 Republicans at a $50-a-plate G.O.P. fund-raising dinner. Much of his speech was devoted to championing civil rights, partly to counter the notion that the Mormon church discriminates against Negroes. At a press conference he said: "There is no concept in the church that the Negro can't attain anything that I can attain in this life or the next." Then Romney said he was not a presidential candidate...
...dominant fact about sexual mores in the U.S. remains the fragility of American marriage. The institution has never been easily sustained; "forsaking all others," in human terms, represents a belief that in an average life, loneliness is a greater threat than boredom. But the U.S. has a special concept of marriage, both Puritan and romantic. In most Eastern societies, marriages are arranged by families; the same is true in many parts of Europe, and there, even where young people are free to choose, they often choose for purely practical reasons. In arranged marriage, it is expected that love...
...Harvard professor now on sabbatical and a research associate will travel to India next month as part of a research project which "could hold out promises for a whole new concept of foreign aid," according to Elliott R. Danzig, Research Associate in the Laboratory of Social Relations...