Word: krag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disorganized, barebones partisan army. They wear blue jeans or khaki pants, Truman shirts or Eisenhower jackets. About 10% have modern weapons, Garands captured from the Cuban army. The rest carry .22-cal. target rifles, double-barreled shotguns, Belgian sporting rifles, Springfields, cheap nickel-plated revolvers, an occasional vintage Krag or Winchester. They also have a couple of dozen .30-cal. machine guns, a few mortars and Browning automatic rifles. Castro runs a tiny arms factory to make tin-can-sized grenades out of sheet metal, TNT and Scotch tape...
...British insistence that only industrial goods should move freely within the Free Trade Area. (This would allow Britain to continue giving "imperial preference" to the agricultural products which make up nearly 90% of her imports from the Commonwealth.) A Free Trade Area that excluded agriculture, warned Jens Otto Krag of agricultural Denmark, would be "quite unacceptable." Eccles had been quite candid about why the farmer would still be protected: "Agriculture is never far from the minds of the politicians''-a truism equally valid for Europe...
...Echoing Krag's fears. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak flatly warned that the British proposal would not be permitted to delay "even for a single day" establishment of the six-nation* Common Market, which will constitute a tightly knit "little Europe'' within the larger Free Trade Area. The difference between the two is that Britain, for example, agrees to reduce its tariff barriers with the Six at the same rate as the Six reduce them with one another, but Britain would retain control over its own tariffs in trade with other nations. If all goes...
...million people. It took four years to subdue the guerrillas in the hills, battling for independence from caretakers-whether Spanish or American. General Arthur MacArthur, whose son was to loom even more largely in Filipino destiny, said of the guerrillas: Let's civilize 'em with a Krag rifle-and tried to. Then came years of civil rule, under strong and foresighted men like William Howard Taft and Henry Stimson. Taft's slogan was "The Philippines for the Filipinos." The U.S., which had always looked down its nose at colonial powers, persuaded itself that it was really engaged...