Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather than dealing with the problem itself, Walker said, "everyone is busy trying to fix the responsibility for its solution on someone else." And while the nation has demonstrated its willingness to protect itself from military aggression, it has not shown a desire to protect itself from "ideoligical aggression...
...send troops to help him in a battle of survival against Syria and Egypt and "agents of international Communism," and talked of marching northward into Iraq to reverse the revolution. But Prime Minister Macmillan had made it clear that the British had sent the Red Devils to protect Hussein, King of Jordan, not Hussein, the head of the now-dissolved Arab Union with Iraq...
...observer: "Afterwards Sir Winston Churchill said I had made a very remarkable performance-but he would only speak to me in the lobby, not in the House. He said: 'When you entered, I felt you had come upon me in my bath and I'd nothing to protect myself with but the sponge...
...getting speedy approval from foreign governments, which can delay a policy for months with red tape. One important drawback is that the guaranty program does not insure against devaluation, by which a nation can halve the value of its currency-and a firm's profits. Nor does it protect against sudden policy shifts, involving unfair import quotas, unfavorable exchange rates, discriminatory tax and wage laws or even government-inspired labor unrest...
...more businessmen come alert to the promising future of underdeveloped countries, the guaranty program can do much to help those nations get the capital they need and to protect the investors who are helping to substitute private investment for public aid. But if it is to be a real shield for forward movement, the program needs a greater awareness of its function by both U.S. businessmen and the members of Congress...