Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonchalant. "Of course the whole country is gone," said a French journalist. Others are bitter. "These people have no appreciation, no understanding of all we have done for them," said a Frenchwoman on a terrace, sipping lemonade. Commissioner General Paul Ely is faithfully working with the U.S. to strengthen South Viet Nam, but others are not. "They treat Indo-China," complained an American, "like a Frenchman treats a mistress in whom he's losing interest. He doesn't want her for himself, but he gets sore if anyone else shows interest...
Also under committee discussion are methods to strengthen House tutorial, without cutting into departmental jurisdiction. Any such shifting of power and responsibility involves broad problems of administrative and education policy...
...bloody day ended, eight Frenchmen and pro-French natives were dead, more than 30 wounded. Paris Le Monde lamented: "All this happened as if an invisible hand were looking for a way to destroy Franco-North African solidarity at the exact moment when we were about ready to strengthen it." Premier Pierre Mendès-France, who wants peace and a settlement in North Africa, had just served notice, in one of his fireside chats, that his government was going ahead with plans to let French Africa "have her large part in the social and economic expansion of the entire...
...block our disposal of agricultural surpluses by direct sale to Russia or other Communist-controlled countries in exchange for gold. Yet here are markets which we might be able to enter without serious damage to our friends ... It is sometimes said that by taking Russian gold we somehow strengthen their economy. But the effort put into production of gold in Russia would by hypothesis be effort withdrawn from the field of heavy industry or munition making...
Another important way to strengthen GATT is to submit the agreement to the U.S. Congress for approval, also recommended by the Randall Commission. For GATT is not only shaky in structure; it has also been attacked in the U.S. as unconstitutional. Democratic majorities and Committees in the next session are ore likely to give Eisenhower support in his liberal trade program than the 83rd Congress did, and formal consideration of GATT is an important part of that program. A stronger international tariff agreement, backed by U.S. Congressional approval, would go a long way toward freer trade...