Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOLLOWING the course of European economic recovery, FOREIGN NEWS found that Europe is amassing gold and dollars at such a clip that the U.S., to protect its own economic strength, must press other nations to shoulder an increasing share of the burden of aid to underdeveloped countries. Around this basic point developed a definitive story of a momentous shift in the balance between the Old World...
Starting point is the need for other free nations to join the U.S. in foreign aid programs. "No one nation, even with the legendary strength of an Atlas, could long support the world on its shoulders," said he. "The free nations of the world, motivated by both humanitarianism and self-interest, should cooperate voluntarily in a long-range program aimed at helping the presently less-privileged peoples work step by step toward a better life. Every nation should contribute to the common enterprise in whatever...
...that will pay off in years to come. If it was not for foreign aid-$5.5 billion last year-the U.S. would even have $1 billion balance of payments surplus. But the swing in the international terms of trade does mean that in defense of its long-range economic strength, the U.S. has had to take a new attitude toward Europe...
...above the general population in ability to decide political issues from an "enlightened" point of view as their foreign counterparts. While many Latin American and African student unions are important political factors in their own countries, NSA is only one of a number of "pressure groups," drawing its strength from the prestige of the individual student governments in the Association...
Balloting in the General Assembly was suspended for two weeks after a see-saw race developed. Turkey's three-vote edge, its best showing so far, gave the West new bargaining strength in the intense diplomatic maneuvering for the seat on the 11-nation Council...