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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barter deals that the U.S. has no use for. Their apparent aim is to achieve a reputation for disinterestedness, their hope that eventually the underdeveloped countries will look to them for leadership and help. The economic bridgeheads, once established, can be expanded into an economic dependence that can eventually bind a country as firmly into the Communist orbit as any political pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Challenge in Giving | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Senate Minority Leader William Knowland and New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith defended the Eisenhower-Dulles report as "informative" and "positive," but from the Republican-Portland Oregonian came a bitter criticism of "the spectacle of two tired, aging men talking about the gravely compromised half-measures which bind and separate America from its European allies." Among Democrats, Montana's Mike Mansfield wished the report "had spelled out the sacrifices the people will be required to make in the years ahead." Harry S. Truman, holidaying in Manhattan, snapped during an early-morning walk that he was "just about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Backward Step | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...guessed that Silberstein would have to sell off more Penn-Texas companies to get the money to buy the stock to support the price, while he shopped for a buyer for his F-M holdings. But Bob Morse apparently had no intention of letting him get out of the bind in that fashion, hoped to squeeze him even harder. Morse had no great worry that Silberstein could find a buyer for his Morse holdings, even if the court permitted him to sell, because the buyer would also be purchasing a lawsuit. But if Morse could persuade the court to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Vicious Circle | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Essentially, the Secretary will have to ask our Western allies to prepare with us a series of alternate disarmament formulae in order of preference. Dulles will also have to bind himself to these plans, in principle at least, but must be prepared to receive quite different proposals from Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Way Talks | 11/23/1957 | See Source »

Nobody was reaching for the door. Instead, the British and the other allies seized the opportunity provided by the new U.S. recognition of interdependence to bind the U.S. more firmly to Europe and to pull themselves closer together. "The American people are no longer confident that even their great country can do everything for itself, without allies, to secure its own survival and still less to secure the survival of the ideals for which they stand," said Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Ties That Bind | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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