Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some State Department officers seem to care not a damn for our servicemen involuntarily abroad, whose constitutional rights their department signed away in status-of-forces agreements with foreign governments. Donald B. Eddy, U.S. consul...
...Communists last week met the quest for relaxation by increasing their prices for it. In a 7,000-word article in Foreign Affairs, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev denned peaceful coexistence as meaning Western abandonment of West Berlin on Russian terms, and acceptance of the Communist conquest of the captive nations of Eastern Europe. Red China stirred up ferment on the borders of India. North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh upgraded his years-long guerrilla bites at Laos (pop. 2,000,000) into an artillerysupported invasion (see FOREIGN NEWS) so threatening that Laos appealed to the United Nations...
...NATO. Between and after pageants, the President held two solid talks with De Gaulle, one for 70 minutes alone with interpreters, one for almost an hour with Secretary of State Christian Herter and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. On France's labyrinthine problem in Algeria, a problem that De Gaulle kept coming back to, the President was pleased and impressed by De Gaulle's new initiative there toward settlement (see FOREIGN NEWS). On NATO, the President restrained De Gaulle's widely bruited hopes for a sort of NATO three-power directorate by promising principally...
Segni and Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella, that in NATO all members, including the U.S., are "equal...
...Military Strongman Manuel Odria got the Legion of Merit for running a tight economy. The reason for such friendly gestures was typically stated in Pérez Jiménez' Legion of Merit citation. It commended him for his "spirit of friendship and cooperation" and for his "sound foreign-investment policies"-in a- word, for stability...