Word: squawkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France was the week's prize squawker. The French government pulled a dismaying political tantrum because the U.S. said no to its request for an additional $625 million aid. The U.S. was willing to give the French $187 million more, and suggested that Paris should try to make ends meet on that. This $187 million is an addition to all other U.S. aid to France, which this year amounted to about $1 billion. Parisian hotheads leaked stories to the papers alleging that unless the U.S. paid up, France would 1) go bankrupt and possibly Communist, 2) pull...