Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat the Russians to it. France's Foreign Minister, Georges Bidault, in Turin to sign a Franco-Italian trade agreement, announced that the U.S., Great Britain and France had decided that the Free Territory of Trieste should be returned to Italian sovereignty. He also promised a drive to help Italy regain some of her war-lost colonies...
...somewhat naive interview to" a newsman from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I don't think a [general] war will take place in the near future," said the king. "But in the unforeseen event of foreign aggression, Greece will defend herself to the last man independently of outside help, and if we have to fight alone we will...
...whose election had been annulled by Costa Rica's Congress. The rebels' commandeered TACA DC-35 made 19 trips to Guatemala for guns and ammunition. Led by a M.I.T.-trained planter [named] Jose Figueres, the Ulatistas fought so well that the government had to ask for more help...
Dictator Tiburcio Carias of Honduras and the Dominican Republic's Dictator Trujillo obliged. They sent pilots and mechanics to Costa Rica to keep government planes flying. To Nicaragua's Somoza, helping Costa Rica's leftwing, Communist-backed government was partly a matter of business. If Ulate won the war, Somoza stood to lose the fat profits of a business he had been running with the family of Costa Rica's ex-President Calderon Guardia. The business: selling Nicaraguan cattle in Costa Rica, contrary to the laws of both countries. On the other hand, Guatemala...
...living standards. The most the U.S. was prepared to offer on the eve of the conference was an increase of $500 million in Export-Import Bank lending authority, and an easing of the bank's rules so that more dollars could flow southward. There might be World Bank help, too. The U.S. intended to tell Latinos that their best bet was U.S. private investment, that to get it, Latin American governments would have to assure U.S. investors that they would not be hamstrung...