Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Butler made this statement during a press conference which preceded his speech last night at the Young Democratic Club's Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. At the dinner, attended by Faculty members and local Democrats, Butler spoke on the principles of the Democratic Party and on foreign policy...
...process of giving away U.S. money to strengthen friendly foreign governments sometimes seems to have a built-in mechanism of self-defeat...
More than three years ago American foreign-aid officials set about modernizing the transport system in struggling little Laos, a pastoral nation bordered by Red China and Communist North Viet Nam. Motives were high and the task seemed simple, but within months the project was bogged down in a mass of bribes, kickbacks and plain confusion...
...with the company. Until Congress took notice, ICA headquarters in Washington seemed almost indifferent to the shenanigans in Laos, and slow to investigate thoroughly. Representative Porter Hardy Jr. of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee, last week indignantly suggested abolition of ICA altogether, and a fresh start for foreign aid under State Department control...
...book-lined Senate Foreign Relations Committee room next morning, Castro talked to 18 Congressmen. Relaxed, amiable and assured, Castro declared: "The July 26 movement is not a Communist movement. Its members are Roman Catholics, mostly." On U.S. investment, he said: "We have no intention of expropriating U.S. property, and any property we take we'll pay for." The Congressmen were charmed-but one of them, Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers, got up on the Senate floor that afternoon to say: "Castro hasn't yet learned that you can't play ball with the Communists...