Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk now was dull and resigned. There had been some fear that his ROK troops might refuse to withdraw from the buffer zone-but they ceased fire along with their U.N. comrades in arms (see below). Syngman Rhee, whose opposition might have wrecked the truce if the Communist hunger for a truce had not been voracious, now declared: "My desire is strong not to follow unilateral policy if it can be avoided...
...week-old advice of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, President Eisenhower dramatically offered $15 million worth of food to hungry Easy Germany, and gave the Reds a chance to refuse it. They did, calling the offer an "insult," and thereby stood convicted of condemning East Germans to hunger. U.S. food supplies would still be shipped to Germany, and pictures of U.S. freighters, Hamburg-bound with milk, lard and flour, blazed in Europe's newspapers...
Paris was shocked, but many saw the problem in its real light. "Pilgrims of hunger," said the conservative Le Monde, "to whom we granted full citizenship seven years ago . . . Why do they come to France? Simply because they cannot feed themselves and their families in Algeria." Said Paris-Presse: "We must take care of them on a social scale, unless we want to take care of them on a criminal scale later." While the newspapers discussed improved housing and job training, les Bicots drew back into the old, dark, protective alleyways of Paris...
President Eisenhower lost no time in making public a dramatic and highly appropriate move. He offered last week to send $15 million worth of food into hunger-ridden East Germany. "Because of its position as an occupying power in GerMany, my Government," said Eisenhower, "has a legitimate interest in the welfare of the people of Germany." Both the U.S.S.R. and the East German Communist government shrilly rejected the Eisenhower offer, a rejection certain to increase the rebellious mood of East Germans...
...Freedom from Hunger: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures...