Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week President Eisenhower named firm-jawed, tough-minded James Riddleberger, 54, to a demanding new job: director of the International Cooperation Administration, the agency that administers U.S. foreign aid. A longtime economic specialist and sometime political adviser to ICA's ancestor EGA, Riddleberger will have a fresh chance in the economic cold war to get back at the old business of talking back to Khrushchev...
...Syria itself there was now no visible opposition to Nasser's rule (the Communists and all other parties are banned), economic strains were being felt. Syrian foreign exchange holdings had shrunk in half in the merger's first year. Nasser's determination to force Syria's free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...Queen Victoria ruled the waves, Lord Palmerston sent the fleet to blockade the port of Athens simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
...coalition Catholic-Liberal government. Cried one: "You not only condemn to death the 18,000 Borinage miners but the entire region-its shopkeepers, all other industries, everyone who is dependent on them." Catholic Deputy Fred-Bertrand, a former miner, shouted in reply: "Do you think you'll attract foreign companies and new investment by creating this revolution?" A government minister promised "replacement jobs" for the miners but was hooted down when unable to give any details. Premier Gaston Eyskens refused to consider nationalizing the mines, argued that the liabilities as well as the benefits of the six-nation Coal...
...inevitable outcome of this dependent relationship is a growing antagonism toward the U.S. Foreign Minister Victor Andrade, onetime Ambassador to Washington and Manhattan teacher, complains that U.S. aid is niggling and adds: "I think the whole trouble is the U.S. was forced to take a leading role in the world before it was really ready. Your people need some preventive education before going abroad...