Word: freer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor of London's Economist, who had made two trips to the U.S. in 1947, wrote: "I believe that the American people-the only people in the world who thought of an ideal first and then built a state around it-will prove in the long run happier, freer, and more creative when they carry that ideal of a free society out into the world, than if they sit at home to hug it to themselves. ... I suspect that Americans will find initiative and action so much more to their taste than any panic-stricken waiting on what destiny...
...correct to say, as you do, that the British led an attack on the U.S. freer trade program at Geneva. . . . It is true that the United Kingdom did not grant all of the requests made by the United States. It is equally true that the United States did not grant all of the requests made by the United Kingdom. The result . . . was a compromise which was acceptable to both Governments...
...credit to Clair Wilcox, who did all that was possible to clear the way for freer world trade. TIME believes that, despite the 123 bilateral agreements signed at Geneva, the tendency toward trade restriction is continuing...
...Havana, the 63-nation conference on freer world trade dug deeper into one of its major dilemmas: every economically backward nation in the world has hopes of industrializing itself; none wants to be merely a source of cheap bananas, coffee or jute. Last week some of them were clinging to the right to use every trick in the book of economic nationalism, if necessary, to make their dreams come true...
Clayton and others at Havana were fighting the good fight for a freer trade world to which virtually all delegates subscribed-in principle. In practice, this fight was a lot easier for the U.S. delegation than for those countries whose industries, state and private, saw no security or progress unless they could somehow be protected from competition...