Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles de Gaulle or Orval Faubus. De Gaulle will be remembered for leading his country from chaos to what should be a self-sustaining nation in the eyes of the world; Faubus will be remembered for leading his state from frustration to chaos to attain personal glory at the expense of thousands of Arkansas citizens who would have otherwise swallowed the integration pill along with their tradition and pride as law-abiding people...
...Seattle to address a meeting of the 18-nation Colombo Plan, set up by the British Commonwealth in 1950 to foster economic development in Asia, the President listed five fundamentals of his Administration's widening foreign economic policy: 1) expanding international trade, 2) keeping up a program of Point Four-type technical assistance, 3) fostering increased overseas investment by U.S. private capital, 4) broadening the flow of "bankable" loans through such international channels as the World Bank. 5) enlarging the U.S.'s Development Loan Fund, which makes loans repayable in soft currencies...
California's Pat Brown is happily aware of the national prominence into which he was catapulted by his 1,012,000-majority victory over Republican Bill Knowland for Governor. Last week, at La Quinta, a resort about 20 miles southeast of Palm Springs. Brown, dressed in swimming trunks and a flowered sports shirt, sat basking in the desert sun and in a delightful dilemma: whether to hew sternly to a campaign pledge to serve his full four-year term as Governor or to sound like an oracle when people talk about him for the Democratic national ticket...
Criticizing Curley is nothing new for Lyons, who has also mentioned the divisive, racial character of his appeal that is less prominent now than it was twenty-two years ago. He than wrote in The Nation, "The intolerance of the Irish politician in Boston for any sharing of politician in Boston for any sharing of political power or political liberties can be compared only to that of the early church magistrates of New England. Curley's regime is frankly racial beyond anything known else-where in America...
...most Christian missionaries in potential Asian and African "democratic showcases," does not feel that anti-Communism is a creed for men to live by. "Communism should be fought, but the Church cannot be defined as anti-anything. It approaches people simply as human beings." In India, a religiously sophisticated nation, conversion is never a matter of "trying to rope people into the show, and a sense of God is taken naturally by the Indians," according to Newbigin. The main growth of Christianity is now taking place in the villages, by word-of-mouth rather than organized preaching...