Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...donations, 2) the exchange of surpluses for foreign currency, most of which was dispensed again in foreign aid. While the President was on the subject, he added his hope that Congress would double the $1.5 billion ceiling on foreign-currency transactions, also permit the U.S. to barter with Iron Curtain countries...
...three years the Socialist government of neutral Burma has refused to take U.S. aid. It was willing to try barter deals with Iron Curtain nations, only to find that Burma invariably wound up on the losing end. Last week, disillusioned with barters and angered by Russian and Chinese support of Burmese Communists, Burma's new Premier U Ba Swe announced that he hoped to get a long-term low-interest loan of $20 million to $30 million from the U.S. as a business deal "without strings," thus compromising neither Burma's neutrality nor her self-respect...
...confusion among the Communists as to how to respond to Poznan had its counterpart outside the Iron Curtain, where admiration for the brave resisters was tempered by the sad realization that they must pay for their defiance and could not be helped. This very human reaction, which was widely shared, was perverted into something else by some British Laborites, who deplored the Poznan uprising as a check to what they deemed to be the beneficient evolution of Communism. Laborite Richard H. S. Crossman, who flits in and out of the Bevan camp like an overgrown lightning bug, was upset that...
...Western Communist leaders who, unlike their Russian masters, cannot rely on police terror and a controlled press to maintain discipline among the rank and file. Left to their own devices, men like Italy's Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the biggest Communist Party (2,130,000 members) outside the Iron Curtain, had begun to make their own explanations, and to talk recklessly of "polycentrism," i.e., independent policies for each of the world's Communist parties. Togliatti echoed publicly the unsatisfied questions of his own disillusioned followers: How could a tyrant like Stalin come to power under the Communist system...
Pushed through by Adenauer's iron will, the bill was less than all he desired. Unable to get the Upper House to agree to 18 months service for conscripts and unwilling to accept a counteroffer of twelve months, Adenauer settled for a law which fails to specify how long draftees must serve but nonetheless gets the defense machinery to work. West German officials swear that they will keep their promise to have 96,000 men in uniform before the end of the year and a 500,000-man force in NATO...