Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army while waiting for his chance to come here. When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, Halla was a student at Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University, from which he was promptly expelled for demonstrating with other students against the new Communist regime. At this juncture, foreign publications, including TIME, were admitted to the country but never reached the newsstands. Halla believed the bundles were destroyed when they reached the border-a procedure that permitted effective censorship of democratic journals while allowing the Communists to claim that freedom of the press was being maintained. At the end of February...
...Halla has been most impressed by "the stores, the traffic and the friendly people who have been so helpful to me." He hopes to get into a U.S. medical school soon where he can complete his interrupted education. Meanwhile, he has scheduled talks on his experiences abroad and on foreign relations...
...sudden burst of speed last week, the U.S. Congress added up the major foreign-aid bills for the current fiscal year, earmarked more than $7 billion for the nation's postwar allies and the occupied countries. The House and Senate quickly agreed on a bill authorizing $1,314,010,000 in military aid for European partners in the Atlantic defense pact (see below...
...Turkey and $912,500,000 for U.S. occupation costs in Germany, Japan and Austria. Still to be considered were another $45 million to get the President's Point Four program under way (see BUSINESS) and $150 million to help bolster the economy of Korea. Total outlay for U.S. foreign aid since the end of World War II: $20 billion". Former enemies Italy, Germany and Japan got roughly a third of the handout...
...chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army; and Kao Kang, pro-Russian boss of the Manchurian "People's" Government. The dual post of Premier and Foreign Minister went to smooth-talking Chou Enlai, the party's ace public-relations man with foreigners...