Word: amer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under the pretext of Atlantic solidarity, they are asking France to take precautions against the Soviet danger before taking precautions against the German danger," cried rightist General Adolphe Aumeran. "Without our agreement Amer ica will not dare rearm Germany." Insisted Gaullist Jacques Soustelle: "Every effort to get a modus vivendi with the East must be sought first. Logic dictates it . . . an alliance with Russia is a geopolitical must for France." Complained old Paul Reynaud, the man who was Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering...
...General Ben Chidlaw's Continental Air Defense Command. Like the Strategic Air Command, Chid law's Air Defense is at the ready every minute of the day and night. Its radar (see cut) and interceptors could make the difference between life and sudden death for millions of Amer icans and perhaps for the nation itself. No defense can be close to perfect, but the ever-alert, ever-expanding Continental Command is dedicated to the proposition that defense measures are practical, even in a ther- monuclear...
Canada's Ambassador to Washington, Arnold Heeney, last week tried a new approach to win support for lower U.S. tariffs and fewer restrictions on Canadian exports. Speaking to a convention of the Investment Bankers Association of Amer ica at Hollywood, Fla., Heeney passed lightly over Canada's case for increased trade, instead stressed the self-interest of U.S. investors in Canada's prosperity. "Whether or not Americans realize it," he said, "they have acquired an important stake in Canada's foreign trade...
...just to contest Humphrey's policy," Fulton proposed a "vigorous program of [Latin American] development comprehending an immediate billion dollars from United States public funds." There were, he went on, 370,000 unemployed in the Pennsylvania industrial district he represented, and the "industrialization of Latin Amer ica would make these countries the cus tomers we need...
...Roared Welker: "No one can tell me that Irishman would not give the shirt off his back to anyone who needed it-except a dirty, lying, stinking Communist." His conclusion: "I am not going to censure ... a Senator who is carrying the ball alone in a crusade to save Amer ica, if he may have said something in an ill-tempered vein...