Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Change is the order of the day, and change of policy is indispensable" was the conclusion of a thorough survey of U.S. foreign policy by Thomas K. Finletter, former Secretary of the Air Force, in an address at the Harvard Law School on July...
Speaking to some 325 lawyers assembled for a two-week program of instruction. Finletter described himself as "very, very disturbed about the changing scene in foreign affairs," and offered a general program to combat the "shrinkage of the West in population, industrial activity, and military power relative to the Communist nations...
Finletter briefly described the background of the present American position and then speculated as to the "uncertainties of the next decade for which our foreign policy must prepare." He emphasized the crucial importance of winning Afro-Asian respect, promoting a split between Russia and China, preventing Russo-Chinese military superiority, strengthening NATO by giving it additional political and military functions, achieving peace in the Near East, and controlling the weapons of the future...
...Wall Street began to sweat. Major steel shares worried off several points, and the Dow-Jones index of industrial stocks dipped from 663.56 to 657.13-despite the fact that steelmakers are expected to report high earnings in the next fortnight. To others, the strike was a cause for joy: foreign steel producers heavily stepped up steel shipments to the U.S., hoped to make strong inroads at the idling industry's expense...
...posing as rubbernecking stockholders or newsmen, bribing disloyal employees, even hiring on as employees themselves. When a ranking executive journeys overseas on business, the private eyes often follow to check on what he is looking for. (A cheaper source of supply? New machines? New customers?) And when a top foreign manufacturer comes to the U.S., his U.S. distributor often puts a tail on him to see whether he dickers with a rival distributor for a better deal...