Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became its chairman, shrewdly arranged that its 17 members should include a sprinkling of deep-dyed isolationists. Leading his committee on an allwork, no-play tour of war-ravaged Europe, he saw to it that his fellow Congressmen got an eye-opening look at the ugly realities of postwar Europe. Result: the Herter committee's reports came out so staunchly for aid to Europe that the Marshall Plan won sturdy bipartisan support. "Without the Herter committee's groundwork," said a top Washington aidman. "the program of foreign aid would never have been passed...
...Over the postwar years a dozen nationalities have streamed into Austria, seeking asylum, filling refugee camps, and-despite large-scale international aid-burdening the Austrian economy. After the influx of nearly 200,000 Hungarians, Austria in self-defense decided to limit the flow. Reading between the lines of the Geneva Refugee Convention. Austria decided to distinguish economic refugees from political refugees. Since "economic"' refugees are those in quest of a better life -not (in the language of the Convention) fleeing persecution-Austria concluded that they could be deported...
...slowly increase its first enrollment of 15 students and endowment of $10,000, took over as president in 1930. Last week, from the U.S.-Greek-run school in Athens, which tenaciously survived the dictatorship of John Metaxas (1936-41), successive occupations by Italians, Germans and British, and a painful postwar rebuilding, President Davis, 63, announced his resignation. President-elect, picked by Davis during a trip to the U.S. last month: Charles Marion Rice, 52, director of admissions and head of the English department (1941-57) at Connecticut's Choate School...
...radio speech announcing his decision, Adenauer took a few angry slaps at Britain and provoked a cross-Channel exchange of insults, thus bringing into the open the stress and strains of the postwar marriage of convenience between Britain and West Germany. But Britain, and particularly its press, was somewhat at odds with all its partners on the eve of East-West negotiations. See FOREIGN NEWS. The Strange British Mood...
Fact is, as the Telegraph suggested, that the postwar alliance between Britain and West Germany has been at best "a shotgun marriage" imposed by the Soviet threat. Adenauer himself has never forgotten that British occupation authorities fired him as mayor of Cologne in 1945 for "insufficient display of energy." And when Harold Macmillan failed to consult him before setting off to Moscow last month, all Adenauer's suppressed distrust of Britain was reawakened. Bitterly, Adenauer concluded that Macmillan was preparing to offer Khrushchev de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, thereby selling out a vital West German diplomatic position...