Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Policy: Foreign aid should be sliced from $7 billion to $1 billion or $2 billion a year; Marshall Plan aid must stop in 1952. "Our money would be better spent on our Air Force and air defenses than in building up countries that can't possibly stand against Russia...
...Farmers: "The Brannan plan is a fraud on its face because it seeks to guarantee high prices to the farmer as well as the price the consumer would be willing to pay, with the difference being met by the taxpayer. It is a fraud because the farmer and the consumer are the taxpayers...
...that it is to be applied over a region in which the Chinese imperial monarchy formerly held a kind of paramount position, and in which large Chinese communities have been built up in modern times by emigration from China. It is also the region which, in the abortive Japanese plan for 'Greater East Asia,' was to have been . . . included, together with China, in a bloc of states under Japanese hegemony. The propaganda against 'Anglo-America' which poured forth from Tokyo only five years ago has now been taken over, sometimes in identical phrases, by Communist China...
Corpus Separatum. The Israel-Jordan agreement was spurred by U.N. action. On the eve of adjournment at Flushing Meadows last week, the General Assembly approved a plan to internationalize Jerusalem. By its terms the city would become a corpus separatum governed by the U.N.'s Trusteeship Council. The area would embrace the walled Old City, the bustling New City and such nearby holy places as Bethlehem...
...plan for Jerusalem had overwhelming support-38 nations for, 14 against, 7 abstentions. It was passed by an odd alliance of forces: the Catholic Latin American countries, which followed the Vatican line, voted with the Communist bloc, which wanted to win friends among the Arab states. The U.S., Britain and Sweden opposed the plan as- unrealistic because U.N. has no way of enforcing it against opposition from Israel and Jordan. The U.S. had favored a Swedish resolution-providing for more limited international supervision of the holy places-which had a clear chance of being accepted by Jerusalem's occupying...