Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet bloc has found no evidence of economic collapse in the free world," Hoover said. "The United States has not had a major depression, as the Marxists had anticipated. On the contrary, we seem to be in a stronger position than ever before, and there is every indication that we can carry on the present pace indefinitely...
...Scelba, he went to Gronchi and asked him to withdraw too. Gronchi refused. "You have always believed in force," he told Fanfani. "Now that I am stronger than you are, I don't see why I should do any such thing." Knowing that the Communists would throw their bloc of nearly 200 votes to Gronchi on the next ballot, Fanfani and Scelba gave up. To avoid the humiliation of a public defeat at the hands of the Communists and Socialists, they agreed to switch what votes they still controlled to Gronchi. Fanfani went to Gronchi and embraced him. When...
...hint to India that it would protect Portuguese Goa. "We should not take any sides in the cold war," said Nehru. "It is an intolerable humiliation for any nation of Asia or Africa to degrade itself by becoming a camp follower of one or the other of the power blocs . . . We will not join either bloc because that means losing our identity...
When the Senate finally voted, the count was 50-44 against the Johnson plan. The Republicans, with the exception of North Dakota's Maverick Bill Langer, voted in a solid bloc. Three other Southern Democrats (Louisiana's Ellender, Florida's Holland. Virginia's Robertson) joined Byrd and George in voting against. Only two of the Senate's 96 members failed to vote: Massachusetts' Democrat John Kennedy, who is ill, and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith, who was abroad doing legwork for an Edward R. Murrow television show...
...logic of their common geography and fate points insistently to a federation government within the Commonwealth along with free movement of populations among the islands, passionate local prejudices have raised formidable barriers. The most striking: Trinidad's exclusion of Barbadians. Trinidad's East Indians, a potent bloc forming one-third of the island's 660,000 people, fear they would lose their political leverage and their oil-economy prosperity if the job-hungry Negroes of swarming Barbados (1,200 persons to the square mile) could move in freely. Fears that the immigration problem could not be solved...