Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget for fiscal 1961, disputes were rumbling that only the President could settle. The Pentagon was crying that U.S. defensive strength will suffer if the Administration insists on holding spending to the $41 billion level of the current fiscal year. In fighting against the outflow of dollars to foreign countries, the Administration was studying a possible cut in foreign aid and a revision of trade policies, with an eye toward shaping a new foreign economic policy that would hold the free world together...
...lead toward a hardheaded world peace. A polite Eisenhower nudge brought an agreement from France's President Charles de Gaulle to a pre-summit meeting of Western chiefs of state (Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Britain's Macmillan, West Germany's Adenauer) on Dec. 19 in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beyond that lay a summit conference with Khrushchev next spring. Between the Western meeting and the long-heralded summit, Ike planned to make his promised visit to Moscow...
...Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) meeting in Tokyo, "or we can expect a resurgence of protectionism and restrictive action." Two days later he told members of the America-Japan Society: "During the era of the so-called 'dollar shortage' we were disposed to be passive about foreign discriminations against our exports and to listen with sympathy, if not always full belief, to the arguments for continuing stringent exchange controls . . . My government believes that recovery has proceeded to a point where restrictions on trade imposed to meet the financial problems of a decade ago can no longer...
...military aid, the U.S. sent abroad $3.4 billion more than it received for its exports. Faced with a $4 billion gap in fiscal 1960 (ending next June 30), Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson has got the President's permission to cast a hard eye over next year's foreign-aid budget and audit the Pentagon's spending for overseas forces and bases. Last month Anderson gave U.S. policy a new dollar-saving twist: the U.S. announced that, with few exceptions, dollars lent in the future to underdeveloped nations by the Development Loan Fund must be spent...
...recent years, Conferences have dealt with "Democracy in Trade Unions," with "Problems of American Foreign Policy in North Africa," with "U.S. Policy toward Communism in Asia." This spring a diversified choice awaits members of the School, for topics include: "Egypt's Role in World Affairs," "Soviet Aims in Foreign Policy," and "National Security and Individual Freedom (e.g. the Fifth Amendment...