Word: foreign
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Robert Low, TIME Inc.'s Eastern European Correspondent, the last three and a half years of reporting the news from both sides of the Balkans' gradually lowering Iron Curtain has been an excursion in incongruity. The Curtain is securely fastened now-except for Communist and fellow-traveling foreign journalists and Low has returned to the U.S. for a breather...
...FOREIGN RELATIONS
...sober approval-with the notable exception of the nation's largest newspaper, the America Firsting New York Daily News. Snapped the Daily News: "Uncle Sam or Sap is now . . . making official his scrapping of President George Washington's solemn warning to this country to keep out of foreign entanglements." The Omaha World Herald slyly demolished that classic argument by predicting: "Washington's words about foreign alliances . . . will be as dead as his warning against the formation of political parties...
...reporters of the U.S. and foreign press began gathering sleepily at the State Department. They were handed a little five-page booklet; the text of the North Atlantic Treaty was top secret no longer. The newsmen had two hours to get their questions ready. On the dot of 9 a.m., Secretary of State Acheson, the man who had the answers, faced the reporters...
...Kremlin had set the propaganda theme, harshly repeated last week over Radio Moscow, in a White Paper issued last January by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Verbose, bristling, heavy-footed with dialectical cliches, this document rejected all moves toward Western union, from last year's Brussels treaty to the looming North Atlantic alliance, as inspired by "warmongers," designed to "undermine" U.N. and "isolate" the U.S.S.R.: "The ruling circles of the United States and Great Britain have adopted an openly aggressive political course the final aim of which is to establish forcibly Anglo-American domination the world over...