Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conclusions. The report's basic message: the U.S.. with perhaps a two-year clear superiority in striking power, is rapidly losing its lead over the U.S.S.R. in the military race. "Unless present trends are reversed, the world balance of power will shift in favor of the Soviet bloc. If that should happen, we are not likely to be given another chance to remedy our failings. However, it is emphatically not too late if we are prepared to make the required big effort now and in the years ahead...
...Russians' economic drive was slow getting started, was stronger at first on promises than performance. Compared to the more than $50 billion which the U.S. has dispensed in foreign aid since World War II, the Russian effort seems unimpressive. But today the Soviet bloc has aid agreements with eleven uncommitted nations, and its scientists and technicians are spread through eight more...
CEYLON. Since April 1956, when Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike's left-trending government came to power, repeated threats of nationalization have dried up most sources of private capital, foreign and local. In partial compensation, Ceylon has got $20 million from the Soviet bloc, the great bulk of it a grant from Communist China, which is hungry for Ceylon's rubber. Recently a 16-man Soviet delegation came to Colombo to talk over a proposed Soviet credit to finance oil prospecting, expansion of Ceylon's sugar and textile industries and construction of hydroelectric projects. Prospects that the Soviet...
Councilor Charles A. Watson, who also tossed his hat in the ring, admitted last night that he had only one vote so far, his own. It is conceivable, though, that the C.C.A. bloc would switch its votes to Watson, rather than allow Sullivan's reelection...
...Soviet bloc, which would contribute about 20 per cent of the total, announced it would not pay anything toward maintenance of the deflcit-ridden force...