Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate: ¶ Received a report from its Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approving the North Atlantic Treaty. The report stipulated (at the insistence of Georgia's Walter George) that the pact give the U.S. President no new powers to send troops into combat without consent of Congress...
...struggle would continue. Its issues, little understood in the U.S., might turn out to be more important than anything on which the Big Four Foreign Ministers might agree. Europe's political future and its military defense were closely tied up with its economic prospects. Would Europe develop toward a great unified area of free trade? Or would each nation protect itself with barriers which would strengthen the parts but weaken the whole...
...week's end, after the government had said that Lechin could come back "when things return to normal," most of Bolivia was working again. Even the miners had begun to go back to the pits. The only important exceptions were U.S. and other foreign mine managers, who had been evacuated by plane after the fighting stopped. Many of them refused to return to their posts, leaving Bolivia short of the know-how needed...
Hymns and Shinja. Last week, the soul of St. Francis Xavier-and part of his body-were again at work on the island of Japan. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Xavier's landing, a party of 75 foreign notables, including bishops, priests and laymen, had come bearing with them St. Francis Xavier's right forearm in a gold, glass-paneled reliquary. Scheduled to visit most of Japan's major cities, the pilgrims were making a 17-day tour that will end next week with a Pontifical High Mass in Tokyo's Meiji Stadium...
...cure. Ten years ago, when the International Congress on Rheumatic Diseases last met, the yanking of teeth and tonsils was a leading treatment recommended by the rheumatics experts. Last week, when the Congress gathered in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the 794 physicians from the U.S. and 25 foreign countries were excited about emotions and hormones...