Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, Manhattan investment banker, onetime president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and now Assistant U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, made a trip home to make a couple of speeches. One of them was to be given to a convention of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, a group dedicated to "promoting better group relations...
Buttenwieser did make his speech last week to the Foreign Policy Association, but he never got to speak to the Anti-Defamation League. Its 35-man national commission, studying a preview of his address, decided that it did not like its "general tenor," that it was "an apologia for the limited job that has been done to denazify Germany; and gives aid and encouragement to . . . vicious elements . . ." Mr. Buttenwieser was scratched off the convention program...
...Association when he insisted that they clean up the sewage that their mines and factories spewed into the state's rivers. He turned a deaf ear to pleas for accustomed favors. Snapped Duff: "If these birds think that the general run of people are interested in watching them make the rich richer and the poor poorer, they're crazy...
Then Yukio Ozaki announced, "Americans have been wonderfully kind, but the Japanese do not understand . . . It is my task to make them understand." The comparative failure of his earlier efforts had not dimmed Ozaki's interest nor killed his hope. "I am thinking," the erect oldster said serenely, "of more distant, important visions in the world...
...Communist bid for power. The civil war has cut rice production in half and disrupted the rest of Indo-China's economy. It has tied down 130,000 French troops, about half of the Fourth Republic's army, and thereby weakened the contribution France might make to Western Europe's defense. In lives, the Indo-China war has cost the French 50,000 casualties. In money, it has cost $2 billion-just about the sum of ECAid to France...