Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midst all the grandeur and panoply Pakistan's Ayub had a case to sell to the President: the Kashmir question. General Ayub tried to convince the President that India's Nehru must consent to the reopening of negotiations on the disputed land. After all, Pakistan is a U.S. ally while India is neutralist, ran the argument, so Pakistan deserves U.S. support. Ike listened carefully but was noncommittal...
...here the universities of the world can be of tremendous help in gathering and sifting and harmonizing them into a universal law. A reliable framework of law grounded in the general principles recognized by civilized nations is of crucial importance in all plans for rapid economic development around the earth. Economic progress has always been accompanied by a reliable legal framework...
...explorations so far, no one has yet agreed on machinery. Many are reluctant to funnel Western aid through the U.N. itself. NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak suggests that NATO be used for the purpose, but this too meets with opposition-in the minds of touchy beneficiaries, it prompts suspicions of cold-war tactics. In Paris last week, in the wake of Dillon's visit, there were suggestions that an "Atlantic Community Economic Conference" should be convened in the near future...
Polite But Hesitant. On his tour of Europe, Under Secretary Dillon was getting a polite hearing, and a general assent that it was time for Europeans to shoulder more of the burden. The British and French were happy to point a finger at West Germany as the laggard in West Europe's aid spending. In Bonn, key Cabinet members heard Dillon out sympathetically, but the new 1960 budget introduced in the Bundestag last week earmarked less than $25 million for direct governmental technical assistance to other countries. (NATO partner Germany also spends only one-fourth of its budget...
...moment, all the plane fights and the round-table concurrences had that curiously unreal air of things desired but not yet accepted as urgent. Yet Dillon's trip, said the Economist, "could just conceivably be the exploratory prelude to the most important development in international economics since General Marshall launched his plan of 1947 on that flood tide in Atlantic affairs that has so spectacularly led on to fortune . . . Now everything suggests that a new tide is racing which could determine whether the decade and a half from 1960 to 1975 will repeat the last 15 years of success...