Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strings on the DLF were more symbolic than revolutionary, for the DLF's annual loans of $550 million are a fraction of the $5 billion in string-free U.S. economic aid (and most of DLF funds have been spent in the U.S. anyway). But the order touched off editorials that the U.S. was moving backward to a "Buy American" program calculated to subsidize high-priced American products that could not otherwise compete in world markets. Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fired off a barrage of hostile questions to DLF Director Vance Brand...
...among the 400,000 soldiers on active duty in Algeria. Taking no chances, French Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat curtly summoned Juin to his office in Paris and reminded him of "the government's will that military chiefs hold themselves entirely apart from political discussions." And in his first order of the day to the troops in Algeria, as President and "Chief of the Armies," De Gaulle himself sternly declared: "In full knowledge of the facts, I have fixed what must be our course of action in Algeria," no less sternly demanded of the army "devotion and discipline...
...Britain, that he is an inflexible old nationalist bent on sabotaging the peace, Adenauer is content to let his friend De Gaulle impede the headlong rush to the summit. Accepting De Gaulle's spring timing, Adenauer suggested that early rather than late spring would be better in order to keep the summit from becoming involved in next year's U.S. election...
Privately Adenauer looks forward to a summit, where no Germans will be represented, with extreme nervousness. Fortnight ago he cryptically suggested that Germany might yet have to make more sacrifices in order to complete "the liquidation of the effects of World War II." What Adenauer fears is that the West may agree to some erosion of its position in West Berlin and may, at least by implication, accept Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe as legitimate. The simple French position is that to renegotiate on Berlin is to call into question the West's existing right to be there...
...West. Since the government runs not only itself but almost all industry, shops, and farms, its budget determines not only its own spending but how many TV sets will be made and how many shoes sold. At 745 billion rubles (roughly $74.5 billion), it is on the same order as President Eisenhower's $77.1 billion budget, but to be really comparable, the U.S. budget would have to include the spending of U.S. Steel, General Motors, A.T. & T. et al. But if the Russian budget is hard to compare to the U.S.'s, it is nonetheless the biggest...