Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's decision represents a compromise of sharp differences of opinion inside the Administration on how the U.S. foreign-aid program ought to be modified. Nearly everybody is agreed that the U.S. has to get out from under its lonely foreign-aid load (estimated 1959 spending: $5.5 billion) in one way or another. The President backs Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's concept that the U.S. ought to join with prospering Western allies to create a pool of foreign-aid capital clearly identified with free nations. He has approved Anderson's plan for a new International Development Association...
...band of diehard segregationists has seethed with frustration. Last week, in a senseless outburst of spite, a handful of maniacs shattered the calm of Labor Day night with a spree of bomb throwing-and again ran smack into hard-hitting Gene Smith, backed by rock-hard Little Rock public opinion...
...Izmir for alleged currency violations, U.S. Consul in Izmir Donald B. Eddy publicly pooh-poohed reports that two of the sergeants had been tortured into making confessions. Informed that a senior U.S. officer in the NATO command had supported the brutality charges, Eddy firmly informed newsmen: "In my opinion it is impossible for a responsible American officer to make such a statement." Last week the Izmir public prosecutor's office formally charged Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin and Policeman Ilhan Suyolcu with mistreating the protesting sergeants during and after their arrest...
...that De Gaulle would propose elections for a new Algerian assembly and executive with whom negotiations on Algeria's political future would be conducted. The plan would not require a rebel cease-fire as a precondition to a settlement, leaving this open in the hope that public opinion in Algeria would by itself force the rebels to stop fighting...
...every American could rise by education. Ben Franklin nourished it with self-improvement primers. Jefferson gave it philosophical reasons. An unlettered people scrambled for skill and knowledge. "Your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority,'' warned Britain's Lord Macaulay. "This opinion," retorted President-to-be James Garfield. "leaves out the great counterbalancing force of universal education/' The focus of a European town remained the cathedral; the focus of an American town became the high school. By the 20th century, quipped Britain's Historian Denis Brogan. U.S. public education...