Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would contribute to the fund the sums that European countries repay on their Marshall Plan loans; European countries would kick in amounts equal to 20% of their repayments to the U.S. Estimated total available: $100 million a year. In addition, private capital would be encouraged to join in. To manage the fund, the Italians suggested a nine-man international board to be chaired by a representative from...
France, which fears an Anglo-U.S. monopoly of nuclear weapons, will demand that control of any missile warheads based on French soil be vested in NATO rather than in the U.S. It is inadmissible, says Premier Gaillard, that some allies "should be a bit more equal than others." What the French most want is a formal reaffirmation that Algeria is included in the NATO area, plus a pledge that no NATO member will take action affecting the interests of another member without prior consultation...
...essentially undemocratic tradition of racial inequality which has flourished in the South for centuries has apparently undermined and eliminated forces concerned with protecting the right of equal opportunity and freedom of association. The states' persecution of the NAACP shows that the spirit of segregation still dominates the South, which is determined to eliminate any organization which might serve to introduce the liberal, democratic tradition of essential equality...
...basic issues, however, must be emphasized and the rights of individuals and associations protected from the intense attacks being waged against them in the southern states. A strong voice is needed to dramatize the large issue: whether all citizens are equal before the law and whether the state will protect and not destroy the individual and group freedoms which are the virtues of a democratic state...
...Rockefeller Foundation is also supporting similar programs of equal grants at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Pittsburgh...