Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the response to similar factual descriptions of the Bolivian situation. A year ago Senator Theodore Green and I were bitterly attacked in La Paz for a speech in the Senate and for an article, respectively. I served as fiscal adviser to the Bolivian government on a special U.S. mission in 1956-57. I returned with the conviction that a continuation of U.S. aid policies would lead to further economic and social deterioration and disaster. Privately, most of the U.S. technicians in Bolivia will confirm your story and tell you of their frustration and the hopelessness of present policies...
...Opukahaia was found weeping on the steps of Yale College, lamenting his ignorance. Sympathetic college students tutored him, and soon he became an ardent Christian; he died of typhus before he could return to the islands. The story of Opukahaia inspired the organization of the Sandwich Islands Mission, and in October 1819 seven New England families, singing When Shall We All Meet Again, set sail for Hawaii in the brig Thaddeus...
...what officials euphemistically called a "goodwill mission," troops began moving northward in a nine-day mopping-up operation. At night, soldiers and police swooped down upon scattered villages of mud-walled huts to cart off every male adult for questioning. The "screening process" was admittedly a bit clumsy-"not nearly so well defined," one police officer said, "as in Cyprus or Kenya." But the fact that those two fateful names came up at all was symptomatic of the uneasy mood...
...better than war, war," Sir Winston Churchill once said. This maxim last week guided one of his successors in office, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, as well as the crowd that welcomed Macmillan home from his unsuccessful mission to Moscow...
...scarlet robes and wide-brimmed shepherd's hat was a symbol eyed by the entire nation. Thousands of non-Catholics lined the flag-decked streets as he passed, and thousands of Catholics gathered around the city's churches every night to show their support of his mission...