Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gathered at the airport to meet him were Mrs. Acheson and Harry Truman. Said the beaming President to the Secretary: "You have done an excellent job." Then Acheson kissed his wife and drove off to report to the President in detail on the conference of U.S., British and French Foreign Ministers in Paris (TIME...
...close of the conference, Acheson had said that the Paris decisions would become known in the following "weeks, or even months." In fact, the substance of the Paris agreement on Germany was known last week. Thanks largely to France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman who had set what he considered a sound policy above French fears of Germany, the agreement represented a sizable boost for the young West German Republic...
...West Germany would be permitted to send consuls and commercial attaches abroad, and to open a bureau in Bonn to direct them. This bureau would be the first embryonic foreign ministry of the Bonn government...
...Western High Commissioners began negotiations to put the Paris agreement to work. (The Germans loved the word "negotiations"-it gave them a standing as a semi-sovereign nation which they had not known since the war.) Vast difficulties still remained, including the possibility that in this week's foreign-policy debate the French Assembly might try to whittle down the Paris decisions. But, as Konrad Adenauer put it, "The German Federal Republic has this day taken a great step forward...
Funds are supplied to cover all the expenses for the year of study at a foreign university, which must be in a country where there are Rotary Clubs. Anyone accepted for a fellowship must agree to return to his own country at the end of his year of study and will then be expected to address Rotary groups in his community...