Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Administration's foreign policy is less ambitious than liberation, more positive than containment. Walt Whitman Rostow, head of the State Department's policy planning board, sums it up like this: "We seek to build a community of independent nations, their governments increasingly responsive to the consent of the governed, cooperating of their own free will in their areas of interdependence, settling their disputes by peaceful means. On the basis of this kind of community of free nations, we seek by every means at our disposal compatible with our own security and that of other free nations...
...Africa and Latin America this policy translates into an effort not to win allies, or even friends, but to help build stable, peaceable and economically sturdy nations, hopefully with governments "responsive to the consent of the governed." In Latin America, that is the goal of the Administration's still ill-defined Alliance for Progress. Some other arenas of policy...
...Being tea drinkers themselves, the Russian's propose to send shiploads of the coffee to Castro's Cuba. And on this point the two countries fell into their first conflict. Under the terms of the agreement, no goods may be re-exported to a third country without consent of the original exporter. So far, Brazil is withholding its consent...
...Cabinet meetings (which Hughes describes from his diary) were horrifying affairs, platitude succeeding platitude illiteracies compounding inarticulateness. It shocks to learn how crudely our leaders speak the language; one thought the pulp puppets of Seven Days in Many only talked that way because they'd just finished Advise and Consent. The truth is that Drury and Bailey and the others had flesh-and-blood models for their artless heroes. And ill-clothed in the cliches, ill-housed in the vapidity, were appallingly undernourished concepts of the problems that a trusting nation had confided to the care of these...
...inflation at last week's appearance before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Manhattan's First National City Bank noted that U.S. business is beginning to catch up with overcapacity, which is what has kept most of U.S. industry from raising prices. Inflation is still, by common consent, a distant danger, but it is a better worry for long-range worriers than recession, and renewed talk of it shows how the climate has changed...