Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarine warfare against Jap shipping, he discussed Portugal's granting of Azores facilities to the Allies; revealed that a staggering total of 855 U.S. planes, using 1,000,000 gallons of high octane gasoline, had participated in the blasting of Bremen and Vegesack; announced that Good Neighbor Venezuela's President, General Isaias Medina Angarita, would visit the U.S. before year's end; and finally took to task the five vocal globe-touring Senators whose criticism of the Administration and the British has caused international reverberations...
...Molotovs live in a three-room Kremlin apartment, once occupied by Czar's servants. Their nextdoor neighbor is Stalin...
While Argentina's Ramirez Government went its lone unneighborly way, the Argentine's longtime Ambassador to the U.S., suave Don Felipe Alberto Espil, remained a Good Neighbor. He and his Chicago-raised Señora had made the red-carpeted Argentine Embassy a model of diplomacy. Last week Buenos Aires called them home...
...Home & Abroad. Last week, at Franco's northern border, German troops were poised; German agents already had infiltrated his country thoroughly, with his own connivance. On his sea frontiers, in the air, in nearby Africa, the Allies he once mocked had grown terrifyingly powerful. Even his meekest & mildest neighbor, Portugal, nestling in Spain's Atlantic flank, was holding grim and elaborate civil-defense exercises, and rumor ran fast that she might be about to join the Allies. If, in the logic of events, Germany declared war on Portugal, the squeeze would fall on Franco. He knows, better than...
...China. As he spoke, Chiang could look back on a year of compensations for hard going. Sinkiang, China's westernmost province, had crept back into the fold after ten years' illicit living with its Russian neighbor. The war had gone well enough so that many could speak of an end before the next Double Ten. There had been no important clashes with the Chinese Communists, and there was a promise on the record to call a People's Congress and adopt a democratic constitution within a year after...