Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retreating Greek Communist guerrillas, Yugoslavia has long been a refuge from which they could later sally forth, refreshed and rearmed. Since the Cominform's cold war against Tito began a year ago, this aid has diminished but it has not ceased altogether...
...bright & early to begin a series of conferences. At noon, natty in a white linen suit, he called at the White House, emerged after half an hour to report that he had offered President Truman the use of Puerto Rico as a laboratory for experiments in Point 4 aid to undeveloped areas. In succeeding days, Muñoz had long talks with Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug and Under Secretary Oscar Chapman. He conferred about air safety with the CAB, about dope smuggling with the Treasury's Narcotics Bureau, about his island's housing and education needs...
Schweitzer and Ortega. Both were optimistic about the status of human standards in the world today; both stood in agreement that man is good, and that, through his own efforts coupled with divine aid, he could better himself and his lot. Ortega welcomed, as normal and healthy, the doubts that now & again besiege humanity. Schweitzer felt that mankind was able, in fact dutybound, to take on fuller responsibilities...
...newsmen he said: "I do not see the world as darkly as many. People should not believe the politicians. I am optimistic about the fate of Europe, and America can help to save what it is possible to preserve of European civilization, principally by spiritual aid...
...advantage within the OEEC system. Under the Petsche plan, however, France could transfer 40% of its British drawing rights to another OEEC country, for instance, Belgium. That way, the Belgians would wind up with part of the U.S. dollars originally allocated to Britain. In other words, U.S. "conditional aid" would follow the drawing rights and act as an incentive to trade...