Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator voted against slum clearance and low cost housing, needed government reorganization, against extension of TVA, and against CCC and aid for the unemployed. In foreign affairs, he voted against repeal of the disastrous arms embargo, against the trade pacts, backbone of the Good Neighbor policy and against sending an army abroad, thus tying the hands of the military. This is neither the record of a humanitarian, a leader, or a statesman...
...international relations expert warned, however, against false optimism on the importance of aid from our neighbor. Unlike Brazil, Columbia guards no strategic body of water, nor does she have as great a concentration of German goods and capital as Brazil, de Haas said. The breaking of diplomatic relations with Germany has already made it possible to confiscate German business houses, and German and Italian airlines. Little more in the way of material support could be expected, the professor said...
...should Chile continue to receive U.S. supplies, as she did? Propaganda even spread that she was getting more than her share. Was this the way countries which had followed the U.S. foreign policy were to be rewarded? So last week Under Secretary of State Welles, architect of the Good Neighbor policy, lighted up with a hard, angry glow...
...opening by the Japanese of a bogus Yenching on the old campus. Though the university lost its campus, it did not lose its $2,800,000 endowment: that was safely in the hands of its board of trustees in Manhattan. At Chengtu (nickname: "Little Peiping"), where it is a neighbor of West China Union University and three other Christian universities (Ginling, Nanking, Cheeloo), Yenching is likely to remain one of the world's great universities: to its already distinguished faculty it plans to add several eminent foreign scholars...
...consigned and ready for shipment to all kinds of "friendly" governments and nationals-but never left the U.S. It consists of shells, motors, machines, pipe, steel bars, copper wire etc. ordered by the whole roster of European nations now Axis-occupied, not to mention China and all the Good Neighbor Republics. The goods got to some port of embarkation and frustration began-usually no ships...