Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind President Eisenhower's pledge of a "great peaceful crusade" lay hardcurrency news: the Administration's foreign-aid chief, Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, is planning to ask the new Congress that convenes in January to appropriate $1 billion for the Development Loan Fund instead of this year's $700 million. Atop that, Dillon will urge Congress to okay big increases in U.S. commitments to the World Bank and the currency-stabilizing International Monetary Fund. "The most important economic question facing the U.S.," says Dillon, onetime Wall Street investment banker who served four years...
...G.O.P. liberals to get one of three top jobs-minority leader, whip, or a new job of assistant minority leader (leading candidate: California's Earl Warren protege, Tom Kuchel, 48); 2) G.O.P. liberals to get better committee assignments, e.g., one or two new spots on the blue-ribbon Foreign Relations Committee; 3) G.O.P. liberals to get more say in policy papers now put out by Bridges' Policy Committee in the whole party's name. Example of what the liberals want no more of: last June the President backed an amendment to the foreign aid bill providing...
Bridges went to the White House, told Ike that foreign aid appropriations would be slashed unless aid to satellites was dropped (TIME, June 16); Ike backed away, pulled the rug out from under the loyal liberals...
...Democratic six was somehow behaving in keeping with his presidential po tential. Hubert Humphrey was aboard the S.S. Liberte, bounding about on the promenade deck, shaking hands and making friends, on his way to Paris for UNESCO meetings that will help him in his role as a leading Democratic foreign policy spokesman. Bob Meyner was in his Trenton statehouse wondering how to get overseas next year in an effort to overcome admitted shortcomings in the foreign policy field ("I can't afford to go on my own hook, and if I let somebody pay for me, people will...
Last week, before 15,000 people gathered for a Russian-Polish friendship rally in Moscow's new Sports Palace, Khrushchev opened up what is obviously Russia's winter offensive in foreign policy. In a first hasty reading, the world took him to mean a new hot time in Berlin. But his real goal was Germany itself...