Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angry futility, ended with a far greater sense of agreement than anyone expected, and with so reasonable a case that Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser found it hard to denounce out of hand. The agreement and the moderation were personal triumphs for the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. As he winged home to Washington, his performance was acclaimed by European diplomats who hitherto have been able to contain their admiration for the Secretary. He had set an unfailingly conciliatory tone, in contrast to the original hot anger of the French and British, and, tirelessly revising his international...
Back to Charles XII. The return to the principles of 1888 was proclaimed in John Foster Dulles' skillful, lawyerlike opening conference speech. "In the Suez Canal the interdependence of nations reaches perhaps its highest point," said Dulles. "The economic life of many nations has been shaped by reliance on the Suez Canal system, which has treaty sanction. To shake and perhaps shatter that system or to seek gains from threatening to do so, is not a triumph, neither does it augment grandeur. The Suez Canal, by reason of its internationalized character, both in law and in fact...
...whole bent of the conference was now to show Nasser that he could accept an international Suez authority without diminishing his country's sovereignty one iota. The effort was conciliatory, free of threats of what would happen if he refused. John Foster Dulles worked on a scheme for a new Constantinople treaty, so that Egypt need not accept what it had already spurned. So long as he was ready to accept what Germany's Foreign Minister von Brentano called international "institutional safeguards," Nasser had a chance to own his Canal Company (after due compensation), and the world...
Pact Trouble. The U.S. and Nasser got off to a fine start when John Foster Dulles visited Cairo in 1953 and listened to Egypt's dynamic young leader argue earnestly that the country's troubles lay, not in Palestine, but at home−where a misgoverned and exploited population, grown from 10 million to 22 1/2 million in 50 years, needed land, three square meals, and some intimation of human dignity. With every intention of basing its Middle East policy on a revitalized Egypt, the U.S. poured $25.9 million in economic aid into Nasser's development program...
...would sometimes tie his hands behind his back, force him to eat until he vomited, and then refuse to allow him to change his soiled clothes. One boy had been to 17 schools by the time he was 16. Others were regularly beaten or mistreated by their parents or foster parents. A good many were the victims of another sort of tyranny: overindulgent parents who pampered them into mental paralysis...