Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following Russia's lead, Hungary and Poland voided their treaty of mutual aid and friendship with Yugoslavia yesterday and thus further cut the tie between the Comin form nations and Premier Marshal Tito's government...
Seventeen European countries got together in Paris in July, 1947, worked out the machinery for the Marshall Plan, and decided how long U. S. aid might have to go on. The target date they picked was June...
They were wrong, even though the first year of Marshall aid produced a fine and eminently visible job in Europe. ECA money built steel mills in France, brought running water to hill towns in Italy, put ports back in business with hundreds of new cranes, and supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
...Marshall Plan should be kept working, however, for its political and humanitarian results are looking better and better. Standards of living have climbed in every country receiving U. S. aid. Unemployment has been falling. And ECA officials, who take a nice practical look at such things, balance high living standards and low unemployment against communism. There is very good evidence to back up the head of ECA's controller's office in Paris when he said "Marshall Plan-aid has reduced Communist pressure in every European country...
Tito warned, however, that much as he needs Western financial aid, he will not allow Anglo-American interference in Yugoslavia's internal affairs any more than he will permit dictatorship from the Kremlin...