Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace, the election results might put new life in the Jewish-Egyptian peace talks going on under U.N. auspices at Rhodes. Both sides were making minor concessions but holding fast to major positions. The atmosphere was that of "a comfortable chess game," but a Briton from the Foreign Office said that if his government should join the U.S. in putting on pressure for peace, a formula would pop up at Rhodes in short order...
...year in his Manhattan office. The rest of the time he travels, on expense account, around the U.S. and Europe, picking up ideas. At home, on Park Avenue, he and his Czech-born wife Marie Thérèse, who speaks seven languages, entertain a babbling stream of foreign authors and artists, who are also tapped for ideas...
...optional plan ECA will set up accounts in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on which ECA countries may draw, roughly like writing a check. The ECA countries will not be required to sever long-standing relationships with private agents. But for the first time in history, foreign governments, if they want to, will be able to draw on the U.S. Government direct...
Bankers and foreign traders squawked, arguing that the plan was simply another step in a campaign to eliminate all private interests from ECA business. But ECA took the position that European aid was for Europeans and not for the bankers-and as much of it as possible should therefore go to Europe...
...leaseholds short, attitudes fated, and all the foundations mined. Against this conviction Mrs. Daryush, like many another contemporary, balances faith in the precarious art of poetry. Her lyrics are those of a gentlewoman (she lives a retired Oxfordshire country life with her husband, a onetime official of the Persian foreign office), but, like her father's, her poems have responded to public occasions. This was written on the war in Ethiopia...