Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They pledged there would be no recriminations over spilt milk on either side and Eisenhower called British-American friendship the core of any free world alliance...
...this is the worst of all possible worlds, and with Ecclesiastes that the greatest disaster in a man's life is the day that he is born. The film, and Alberto Moravia's novel from which it was drawn, reflect an uncompromising disgust for man and his works. Love, friendship, honesty, are all shams, and everyone, whether by his will or no, is doomed to a mire of depravity and frustration...
Like anyone lavishing money around, and often incurring more ill will among those he disappoints than friendship among those he favors, Uncle Sam finds it hard to get across the notion that aid programs are not certificates of sympathy and merit but barometers of danger, need and opportunity. Cold-war spending is a jumble of crash programs, hard bargaining and erratic generosity. The circumstances which determine who among friends and neutrals gets the most money, however, are not all of U.S. making. Sometimes the degree of a country's exposure to military and political intrusion by the Communists...
...Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh are two fine people who by their way of life make no mean contribution to the maintenance and consolidation of friendship and good will among the peoples of the West, of Africa and of Asia; yet TIME [Feb. 18] gives space to scurrilous rumors about their private activities...
...Saud and Nasser was in no better working order than the automatic steps. All the way back from his warming visit to President Dwight Eisenhower, Saud had been proclaiming his faith in Ike. "I am convinced that the future of the Arab world must be founded on its friendship with America," he said. Last week, as Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly and Jordan's young King Hussein gathered in Cairo to hear his report, Saud was a frank advocate of the U.S. position, said an informed Egyptian. "Saud spoke repeatedly of the Eisenhower era. He said...