Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bell again with the article in your Aug. 15 issue on the Chinese situation as handled in the State Department's white paper. It is clearly written and easily understood. It gives the American public a good idea of the mess China is in, and of our foreign policy, past and present, with the Chiang Kai-shek government...
Early in the week he had flown to Miami to the convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars, to read a speech appealing for support of his foreign military-aid program. It was the kind of routine, uninspired address that Speechwriter Clark Clifford can turn out in his sleep, designed to satisfy its hearers without making headlines. Back in Washington, the President signed the proclamation of the Atlantic pact, made another short speech: "No nation need fear the results of our cooperation ... On the contrary . . ." These functions he performed with earnest punctilio...
Gifts for a Friend. Perón also wanted to give his guest the Order of the Liberator San Martin, but Bruce begged off. Ambassadors, he said, ought not to take medals from foreign governments. "The main thing I want from you," he said, "is your autographed photograph." At dinner he got it, a huge picture inscribed to "mi gran amigo." He also got a Peronista button for his lapel and a small "loyalty medal," an unofficial Peronista emblem which the President had previously given only to members of his household...
Because the U.S. now has an oil surplus, U.S. oilmen have been bringing pressure in Washington to cut down imports of foreign oil. Faced with that possibility, Alberta's producers have had to consider alternatives. One might be to pipe the oil from Regina to Port Arthur (see map). Another might be to carry oil to Duluth by pipeline under bond, then ship it by tanker to industrial cities in eastern Canada...
Lens & Retina. Their most notable conclusion in this period: the fibrous tissue was not a foreign growth between the lens and the retina (the sensitive screen upon which the lens focuses images), but a swollen, greyish transformation of the retina itself. It occurred when the babies were between two and four months...