Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most notable convert to the idea of holding such a meeting was Mexico, whose complacent view of Guatemala as a little country going through a period of revolutionary reform was abruptly upset last month when her southern neighbor received 2,000 tons of Communist arms and ammunition. A formal call for the conference, to meet around July 1, probably in Montevideo, is expected this week...
...morning last January, two young Boer farmers named Petrus and Pieter Gouws drove up to their neighbor's farm on the parching South African veld. The Gouws asked for Joseph Mokwatsi, a 17-year-old Negro employed as a field hand, explaining to his master: "We think he stole two jackets, and we want him to show us where he hid them." Joseph was handed over; the Gouws tied a leather thong around his neck, threw him into their truck and drove...
When the U.S. first proposed, last November, to strengthen Middle East defenses against Russia by providing arms aid for Pakistan, Pakistan's Bad Neighbor Nehru fanned up a white hot rage in India against American policy. But the U.S. persisted in negotiations with Karachi, and last week-in comparative quiet-signed a one-year military-aid agreement with Pakistan...
...India, officials were rosily pleased to see the U.S. forced into a secondary role at Geneva. Nehru told his Parliament that a real model for Asian agreements was his new pact with China, in which India meekly accepted the Red Chinese conquest of its northern neighbor, Tibet. Nehru made clear to those who had missed the point over the years that India was not ready to join any alliance to resist Communist expansion...
...hand of Honduras' neighbor, Communist-infiltrated Guatemala, showing in the strike? Said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington last week: "There is at least an interesting coincidence in the fact that the strikes have occurred principally in an area to which the Guatemalan government recently sent three consuls who have subsequently been declared persona non grata by the government of Honduras because of their activities...