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...promising Asian policy. In a land where hundreds of millions starve, there was a realization that a full belly is a better and cheaper defense against Communism than forced arms and defense treaties. When the Indian government planned economic self-development projects, the U.S. has been ready to lend technical assistance. But Bowles brooked no attempts to use American aid to shape India's economic or foreign policy in the American image. As a result, Bowles has gained an enormous following in a country which has damned Westerners for a hundred years. And India has strengthened itself against the economic...
Anticipatory credit in placement of College Board exams, the Committee maintains, will "lend strong encouragement to better and more intensive language instruction in the schools...
Great Expectations. As inauguration day grew near last week, however, hundreds of Washingtonians had high hopes for a change not only in the capital's political atmosphere but in that of the White House itself; Mamie Eisenhower is fondly expected to touch off a social renaissance and to lend a new warmth to the affairs of the presidency...
...Remote & Receding." France, whose strength in Europe varies inversely with the size of the French Army's difficulties in Indo-China, wanted the conference to recognize NATO interest in that area, and the ministers agreed. They urged all NATO governments, notably the U.S., to lend "continuing support" to the "valiant and long-continuing struggle" which has so far cost France $3.6 billion and the cream of her officer corps.* At last the war in Indo-China, too long derided as a colonial struggle, was recognized for what it is: a trial of strength against Communism, second in importance only...
McCloy's work on German sabotage gained him an intimate knowledge of Germany, Germans and espionage, which caused Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to make him an assistant in 1941. Among other tasks in that job, McCloy helped write the Lend-Lease bill, opposed the ill-conceived "Morgenthau Plan" to de-industrialize Germany, served as chairman of the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee. Stimson wrote of him: "So varied were his labors and so catholic his interests that they defy summary . . . His energy was enormous, and his optimism almost unquenchable...