Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...London conference, had in effect said that Western Europe had bet ter get going in its conduct of the cold war and it had better lift its defenses out of the blueprint stage. As Schuman interpreted the Secretary's views, Acheson meant that everyone would have to make real sacrifices for a real defense system-and a real defense would be impossible if Western Germany were to be left...
...could hold Formosa. 2) The Chinese Nationalists cannot hold Formosa without U.S. help. 3) The fall of Formosa will make much less difficult the Communist conquest of Indo-China and the Philippines. 4) A Communist Formosa may call for a 20-40% increase of U.S. strength in the Pacific. 5) This increase will cost a great deal more than the cost of holding Formosa...
...that his business morality had been shaky: "I feel as if I had sucked the blood of the poor in establishing the big name of Dalmia." And in his youth, he said, he had often underpaid his creditors. Since many of them were dead, he had decided to make a "sanctifying payment of five lakhs" ($105,000) to a fund for refugees from Pakistan. "This charity will bring peace to the departed souls [of dead creditors]. If any living creditors want to serve on the [fund] committees, I may request the committees to consider cooperating with them...
...extending Argentina credit, that feeling had evaporated. At least six U.S. Government agencies-the Departments of State, Commerce and Treasury, EGA, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Export-Import Bank-had rated Argentina a good credit risk. The State Department hoped that this economic assistance might also help to make Argentina a better political risk. But that remained to be seen...
...Moscow, gave him the full caviar-and-ballet treatment plus an interview in Pravda in which he said that Canada was a police state infested with U.S. spies. (He claimed later that Pravda reporters had misquoted him, but added a hasty explanation that Soviet reporters, like all reporters, sometimes make mistakes.) Back in Canada, Endicott was a logical choice to escort the "Red Dean" on his pro-Soviet peace junket...