Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Depression. For many others, the elder statesman who, in his 703 had labored long to reorganize sprawling U.S. Government departments, was a living expression of such old-fashioned virtues as simplicity, sanity and thrift. For his birthday, congratulatory messages from Congress, U.S. boys' clubs and European foreign offices poured in to his old home at Palo Alto, Calif., where he was to spend the day. His two sons, five (of his six) grandchildren and 10,000 friends joined to welcome him back to Stanford University, where he had graduated with the university's first full-fledged class...
...Foreign Ministry went to the Christian Socialists' staunchest Leopoldist, ex-Premier Paul van Zeeland. Almost continuously for the past 13 years the Foreign Affairs portfolio had been held by the Socialists' able Paul Henri-Spaak, who last week became president of the Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly. Commented a Belgian newspaper: "Lost for Belgium but won for Europe...
...fight against the flood was also a fight against starvation riding its crest. The Yangtze basin had lost 40% of its rice crop. In the south the deficit was 50%. Surveying the figures, foreign experts foresaw another tragedy: the great flood might well plunge China into the century's most terrible famine...
...Foreign Minister, Juan Atilio Bramuglia was one of the ablest men in President Juan Perón's cabinet. Though a moderate, he was also one of Perón's oldest and staunchest supporters. But he had one disadvantage: he had somehow, somewhere, offended the President's wife, Evita. Last week, it indirectly cost...
Bramuglia, the son of poor Italian immigrants, is a quiet, complex man of unquestioned integrity. As Foreign Minister, he led his country away from its stubborn opposition to the U.S. in hemispheric councils. At the U.N. he made a flashy try at reconciling the Western powers and Russia on the Berlin blockade. But at home, on la Señora's orders, he was rewarded with a campaign of insulting silence in the Peronista press and on the radio (TIME...