Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particular Roman Catholic candidate who, as an American citizen, and hence not subject to ecclesiastical force, can disavow the policy which the hierarchy of his church has proclaimed." At week's end, a spokesman for the aid-dispensing International Cooperation Administration said that not a penny of U.S. foreign aid had been spent to spread birth control information overseas, added that "no such action was contemplated." Hence, said he, the controversy was actually "very academic...
...there is imminent possibility of further executions." Sir Leslie noted with scathing constraint that the Communists barred him from visiting Budapest on grounds that the 1956 uprising was "a matter of domestic jurisdiction," yet continued to spread the "fanciful" and contradictory story that "the uprising was instigated by foreign powers...
...Gaulle's France not only got Spain invited into the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, but helped it get OEEC aid. Last September De Gaulle himself told Spain's Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz that "Franco and the Spanish people have rendered great services to the world-the new Spanish stability marks a step toward complete Western European integration." Finally in October, just 300 years after Spain's Chief Minister Luis de Haro and Cardinal Mazarin of France met on a tiny neutral island in the little Bidassoa River to sign the Peace...
...first arrived in Paris back in 1953, life can be lonely for the Soviet ambassador to a Western capital-even when that capital has a solid Communist minority, ranging from tough factory hands to the mandarins of the Left Bank. In 1953, Vinogradov got a deliberately perfunctory greeting from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, and some newsmen even ungenerously commented on the new ambassador's baggy appearance. But soon Paris began to take a second look...
...Spark. Last week, as the institute welcomed foreign and domestic experts to its fourth annual convention of specialists on Nazi Germany, one of the prime topics on everyone's tongue was a question that the world believed answered long ago: Who set the Reichstag fire...