Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for uncovering a dark horse in the Democratic Party -Governor Frank Lausche of Ohio. Glad to know that there are still honest politicians who put duty and honor before friendship...
...tutelage was taken over by a real genius, the gaunt son of an Iowa harnessmaker, Harry Hopkins. Hopkins and Harriman used to play croquet (Harriman had dismounted from polo by that time) at Herbert Bayard Swope's estate on Long Island. It was the beginning of a great friendship. Wrote crotchety old Harold Ickes: "Mr. Harriman was one of the famous group of patron-protégés of the late Harry Hopkins. Probably he was the chief of these. He was always willing to scratch Harry Hopkins' back just as Hopkins was willing to scratch...
...Soviet sale of arms to Egypt's military junta is only the most spectacular of the Kremlin's penetrations. Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Afghanistan are considering similar offers. Last week Soviet commissars signed a treaty of friendship with Yemen and promised to support Libya for a seat in the U.N. The Hungarians are shipping freight cars to Egypt, Poland is wooing Ceylon. East Germany is at work on Lebanon. Czechoslovakia, the most advanced industrial nation in the Soviet orbit, spearheads the trade offensive. The Czechs are providing spare parts for guns to Afghanistan, trucks to Jordan, tractors...
...arms policy, the United States must uphold its determination to avert a ruinous armaments race in the area. The U.S. should certainly refrain from attempting to outdo the Soviets in winning Arab friendship, even if arms shipments are the only way to Arab hearts. Whatever Mr. Dulles' cherished plans for a Middle Eastern defense arrangement directed against the Soviet Union, he should remember that in Arab eyes, enemy number one is not Russia, but Israel...
...them to save the Baganda from the stubbornness of an absolute monarch. They should have told that to the Baganda. At the ceremonial signing of the new agreements last week, 10,000 roared noisy applause as King Freddie spoke. Then Governor Cohen rose. "Who does not believe that this friendship [of Britain and Buganda] has emerged not diminished but strengthened?" he asked rhetorically. The assembled tribal chiefs burst into raucous, mocking laughter...