Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generally optimistic views over the British action and its effects on west and East came from seven of the University's economic experts--men familiar with the problem through work with the Economic Cooperation Administration the University's Russian Research Center, and through general studies in the field of international trade. Of these men, only one was not convinced that devaluation had at least al fair chance of solving Britain's economic woes...
...sense the soviet countries cannot affect devaluation because the volume of East-West trade is now low for obvious political reasons. "If England wanted to sell to Russia, devaluation would prove a big help; but as long as trade is so small it does not matter...
After three years of operation in Austria, the seminar has an alumni body of almost 1000 in 17 countries of both East and West. The students who attended the summer sessions--and they were not students in the ordinary sense, since many already had their Doctor's Degrees and were established in journalism, civil service, theater, art, music, or teaching--have spend six weeks studying all aspects of American culture with leading American professors. This academic focus makes the Seminar unique among organization working for international understanding, for it bases friendship and appreciation of other viewpoints on common work land...
...Iron Curtain between Yugoslavia and the Soviet East zipped up tighter yesterday when Rumania announced she too had severed friendship treaties with Tito's country. The formal isolation of Yugoslavia from the East completes except for Czechoslovakia the moves of Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, who followed the lead of Russia...
...Russians relaxed their border controls at a number of crossing points to encourage Western Germans to participate in gigantic "World Peace Day" demonstrations throughout the Eastern Zone, but only about 500 Germans were reported to have taken advantage of the holes in the Iron Curtain to go East...