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Asst. Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams sped to Kenya after meeting with Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and Ambassador W. Averell Harriman flew to Iran in other U.S. peace moves...
...free world's unlearned lessons over the past three decades, Rusk reminded NATO's Foreign Ministers at their year-end council meeting: "Ask yourself what your national interests are in the Viet Nam conflict. Ask yourself what were our interests in Manchuria in 1931 and in Ethiopia in 1936. Ask yourself what were your national interests as Hitler made his aggressive progress. In those days, we as governments did not recognize our national interests-and look at the price we paid...
...early this year, Krupp has been trying to develop several direct joint enterprises with Poland, but so far has been more successful in setting up triangular trade agreements. A Polish contractor is building a Krupp-designed cement factory in Yugoslavia, and shipyards in Bulgaria are making fishing vessels for Ethiopia under subcontracts from Krupp; the company has offered similar triangular deals to the U.S.S.R. Essen's Rheinstahl has agreed to supply Hungary with steel and to engage later in joint manufacture of machine tools, radiators, boilers and pumps that will be marketed in third countries. The Soviet Union...
...philosophy in 1951, when the Mutual Security Act was passed by Congress and an attempt was made to gather all the proliferating economic and military assistance plans into one coordinated program. So many administrators came and went that nothing really got coordinated; 2,000 steel plows lay rusting in Ethiopia, dams were built in a remote corner of Afghanistan, Asian potentates had fleets of cars bought with aid funds. This phase began to end in 1957 when President Eisenhower shifted the major emphasis of foreign aid from outright grants to development loans and investments. President Kennedy in 1961 created...
...Khartoum the army was ordered on emergency alert, and heavy guards were ringed around government buildings to prevent sabotage. Prime Minister Mahgoub flew back from a quick trip to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya with the news that all three nations had agreed to give no aid to the rebels. Even so, pressures were growing in the black nations to support their fellow blacks against the Arab north, and the Nairobi Daily Nation warned that the war could grow into "another Viet Nam." "Is it too late for peace in the Sudan?" asked the Tanzania Standard. "It will be tragic...