Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This could be compared with the $300 million Russia claims to be giving Syria over the next five years. Furthermore, said Dulles, the Russians have concentrated their aid in areas that have special strategic significance for them-two-thirds of all Russia's foreign aid outside the Soviet bloc goes to Syria and Egypt...
Between East & West. In such green pastures, the Soviet-bloc countries are making hay. Having bartered Ceylon's basic rubber crop to Peking in 1957, Banda's regime last week signed an economic agreement with the Soviet Union for machinery and technical aid in return for Ceylon's tea. In the last year, 600 Ceylonese have toured the Soviet Union as Moscow's guests. Under a new Soviet-Ceylonese cultural pact, 21 Russian teachers last week bustled about the island meeting their Ceylonese counterparts. Premier Banda professes no fear that his tiny country might be overwhelmed...
Only the exact timing of Diefenbaker's move came as a surprise. The 23rd Parliament was assured a short life when the voters last June failed to give any party a ruling majority; Diefenbaker's Tories were merely the largest bloc with 113 of the House of Commons' 265 seats. But Diefenbaker had skillfully steered the legislation to put into effect most of his campaign promises, e.g., expanded social security benefits, bigger cash payments to farmers, more revenues to the provinces...
...number of collective farms dwindled to a token 1,724 (10,000 in Stalin's time). "The new fences," observed Warsaw's Swiat, "testify to the return of the peasants' sense of ownership." Relations with the Catholic Church are far better than in other Soviet-bloc countries, though the Vatican reports that "government interference with religious appointments tends to become more rigorous than last year...
...President's message hit the Capitol, farm bloc regulars hit the chandeliers, turned sober discussion of issues into noisy attack on Ezra Benson. North Carolina's Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, cried that Eisenhower wanted to give Benson a "blueprint for bankruptcy." Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate committee, said Benson would become a "czar," promptly summoned him to a committee inquisition. Benson arrived at 10 a.m. with a 24-page statement, was badgered after the third sentence. At one point Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington accused Benson of "insincerity...