Word: counterweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than two years. The Reds' idea of a settlement is to be incorporated into the royal government, and the princely Premier had shown signs of falling for it. The Reds kept pressing. Souphanouvong argued: "To be really neutral, Laos should accept economic aid from China as a counterweight to American aid." Royal Premier Souvanna Phouma, who had come back empty-handed from a trip to Peking last year, replied: "How could we accept what has not been offered to us?" He knew better than anyone else that almost the whole Laotian budget, save for some revenue from legal...
...Prop & Counterweight. Until a little more than a year ago, business had no effective voice in Perón's councils of state. Perón came to power as the business-baiting leader of Argentina's workers, and he made the General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.) the main prop of his regime. In labor-management disputes. Perón's government and courts almost always sided with the C.G.T...
...creation of the C.G.E. in 1953, as a counterweight to the 6,000,000-member C.G.T.. fitted in with Perón's vague variety of Mussolinian corporate-state philosophy, but as usual his reasons were practical rather than philosophical. By setting up a business federation he expected to 1) broaden and stabilize the base of his power, and 2) boost the nation's industrial output. Said Perón, in a recent speech sounding remarkably different from the rabble-rousing Perón of yesteryear: "We may get some results if we try to persuade people...
...before. He had personally hand-picked Eugen Gerstenmaier, 48, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, as the man to succeed the late Hermann Ehlers as Speaker of the Bundestag (Lower House). Gerstenmaier was a Christian Democratic Deputy, a leading Protestant Church official (and thus a politically useful counterweight to the Catholic Chancellor himself), a devoted follower of Adenauer, a passionate believer in European unity. Besides Gerstenmaier's qualifications for the speakership, Chancellor Adenauer also had a reason for wanting him kicked upstairs: as a passionate defender of EDC and its supranational ideal, Gerstenmaier might not be flexible enough...
With its coal mines (17 million tons annually) and its steel furnaces (3,000,000 tons), the Saar is the counterweight France wants to offset the industrial might of West Germany. With the Saar, France's steel production is near West Germany's (13 million tons v. 16 million); without the Saar and with the Saar added to West Germany, France would have little more than half of West Germany's output (11 million tons v. 18 million...