Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object of Jenner's wrath was the $5.5 billion authorization bill to carry ECA through its next 15 months of operation (see INTERNATIONAL). All week long a little knot of Republicans chipped and chiseled away at the whole tripod of U.S. foreign policy-ECA, the North Atlantic pact, the arms program for Western Europe. Their weapon was an amendment drafted by Nebraska's Republican floor leader Kenneth Wherry, which would lop $1.9 billion off ECA's budget and extend it only a year...
...debate, accusing him of serving with the Spanish forces against the U.S. in 1898.*When Churchill refuted the charge in a wire to Texas' Tom Connally, Langer exploded in almost unintelligible rage. Churchill, he roared, "is not an enigma wrapped in riddle; he is a cold-blooded foreign propagandist wrapped in a bag of aristocratic wind inside a worldwide graveyard which he helped to create and in which he feels so thoroughly at home that now he wants to do it all over again and get us into one more...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed the "grave concern" of the U.S. Government, and the State Department finally wrung from the Czech foreign office a promise that U.S. officials could interview the imprisoned soldiers. A hardbitten old sergeant from the pair's old outfit, the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, voiced his own position more succinctly. Said he: "If them lunkheads is spies, I'm Mata Hari...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson conferred on Germany with both France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Some progress toward agreement was reported, especially in the talks with Schuman, who has consistently taken a more reasonable view than French officials in Germany. The main question under discussion with the French is their insistence on breaking Germany up into small semi-autonomous governmental units...
...Pipeline Co.'s rights to build a pipeline through Syria (TIME, Sept. 15, 1947), and throw in his lot with Trans-jordan's King Abdullah, whose avowed hope it is to build a "Greater Syria." Zaim denied any such wild intentions. His coup, he said, had "no foreign implications...