Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applause that greeted President Eisenhower as he strode down the aisle of the House to deliver his seventh annual State of the Union message last week was warm and enthusiastic-as if designed to show that the glittering assemblage of Congressmen, Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, foreign diplomats and distinguished visitors, almost to a man, liked Ike. Just as unmistakable was the fact that never before in his presidency had Dwight Eisenhower confronted a Congress-almost two-thirds Democratic-so openly skeptical of his programs and philosophy, so thoroughly pervaded on the eve of the traditional message by the spirit...
...Communists except where such treaties are ''self-enforcing." The U.S. has therefore mustered air, sea. land forces that are a powerful deterrent to general or limited war. has linked up with nearly 50 nations in collective security agreements. The problem: U.S. spending on national defense, atomic energy, foreign military aid will, by the President's budget (to be presented to Congress next week), total $47 billion in fiscal 1960, or more than 60% of the federal budget. The U.S. is already investing $7 billion a year in missiles, developing fighter planes that cost 50 times as much...
...speech, entitled Foreign Policy--The Next Phase, launched a nation-wide program, "Decisions ... 1959," in the Cambridge area. It focused on specific foreign policy problems and their possible solutions...
Finletter also discussed Communist China, disarmament, and the reorganization of the Defense Department. He concluded by citing the difficulties of getting a foreign policy which keeps up to date with the times...
Concerning "the great anti-colonial revolution in Asia and Africa, Finletter said that "U.S. foreign policy is "far behind the event." Certain elements of our policy, such as emphasizing the unilateral use of Western military power in Asia, are thought of as the essence of colonialism, he added...