Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the conference resumes, the Western foreign ministers will be ready-as before-to negotiate in good faith, but resolved-as before-to stand firm on rights and principles...
...Hoffman of Michigan complained that the alleged saving was a "deception." Camouflaged in the fine print of the bill was an unmentioned provision loosening up the rules on pensions for widows and orphans. Under present law, the needy relicts of World War I veterans-but not those of other foreign wars-may claim pensions, even if the husband's death was in no way connected with his military service. The House bill extends the same privilege to widows and children of 205,684 veterans of World War II and Korea. Estimated cost over the next four decades: $22 billion...
Nominated by the President to be U.S. Ambassador to the brand-new Republic of Guinea, John Howard Morrow, 49, has never before held a Government job or set foot upon the continent of Africa. But last week he won unanimous Senate confirmation after speedy hearings before the same Foreign Relations Committee that has lately assumed noncareer diplomats to be unsuitable for their posts until proved otherwise (TIME, June...
...William M. Rountree, 42, veteran (17 years) Foreign Service officer and three-year Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, to be Ambassador to Pakistan...
...term British Commonwealth* had been loosely in use for decades, and Britain's Arthur James Balfour, World War I Foreign Secretary, undertook to define it-with help from Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King (William Lyon Mackenzie's grandson). Lord Balfour's report called the Commonwealth "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another," and united "by a common allegiance to the Crown," as head of the Commonwealth. The 1931 Statute of Westminster removed from Britain the right to withhold consent to laws passed by Dominion Parliaments...