Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong, united Germany and the possibility of a very strong China. Ike has seen nothing to indicate that the Russians really do want a summit conference, but they are using the summit to split the Western powers. Still, he is willing to go to the summit, provided that the foreign ministers' meeting shows some progress; he would not go if he thought that his presence could be construed as abject surrender...
...week Herter with lawyerlike logic spelled out Western objections, wound up by threatening to break off the talks unless Russia modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely meaningless procedural concession, and agreed to discuss Berlin "simultaneously" with Russian plans for an All-German Commission. So eager is British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to keep the talking going in Geneva so that he would not have to explain a breakoff to the House of Commons (before it adjourns July 30) that Lloyd persuaded his colleagues to forget their threats and return to the bargaining table...
...Khrushchev's next scheduled trip, to Scandinavia, things were obviously going to be worse. A campaign had already begun, supported by newspapers and prominent public figures, to give Khrushchev the silent treatment. Last week the Soviet Foreign Office called in the Moscow envoys of Sweden, Denmark and Norway to inform them coldly that Nikita had decided to cancel his Scandinavian tour. Originally, he had planned to talk up his proposal for a nuclear-free "Baltic zone of peace," an odd notion for him to peddle, since Russia alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would...
...billion that the U.S. poured in since 1951 started a heady building boom, but the new factories have never had enough raw materials, were not sensibly geared to national needs, and were too expensive to run. Exports have fallen ominously behind imports, capital has fled to safe foreign banks, and since the government is too short of cash to buy raw materials, businessmen regularly resort to the black market. Last week, becoming a full-fledged member of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, Spain vowed to change all that...
Tighten Up. To qualify for substantial foreign help, able Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres (a former economics professor) flew home from a last round of conferences in Washington and Paris, to start a long list of major reforms. The government decreed that the peseta, which up until now has been subject to at least 13 different exchange rates, would be fixed at 60 to the dollar. Excused for the time being from paying $45 million in foreign debts. Spain would get an injection of $375 million in additional aid from the U.S., OEEC, the International Monetary Fund, private U.S. concerns...