Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty-four nations now meeting in Geneva are urging that good fences do not make good neighbors and that lower tariff walls are needed for economic stability in the free world. These nations have a chance to strengthen the world trade system by changing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade into a permanent organization. The original GATT agreement, signed in 1947, reduced tariffs on a large scale and showed that many nations were willing to work for a liberal trade system. The agreement also adopted with few exceptions the "most favored nation" policy of the United States, by which...
...hope that, both on moral grounds and on political grounds, both for its own good and for the good of all mankind, the U.S. will continue in its refusal to recognize China's People's Government' . . . will be firm in its opposition to action calculated to strengthen that government...
...Korean war has ended. Suez and Iran no longer are open sores. Yugoslavia and Italy have "settled their differences over Trieste." And just signed in London is "an agreement of momentous significance [that] will powerfully strengthen the defense of the West." Said Ike: "For the first time in 20 years, there is no active battlefield anywhere in the world...
Danger & Opportunity. Recognizing the Trieste situation both as a danger and an opportunity to improve U.S.-Italian relations and strengthen the faltering, pro-U.S. Christian Democrats, U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce signaled Washington into a sense of urgency about Trieste. Washington and London decided to break the stalemate, but their first attempt failed. Assured by Anthony Eden that Tito would not object, the U.S. and Britain announced last October that they were withdrawing their troops from Zone A forthwith and turning it over to the Italians. Marshal Tito flared with anger over the failure to consult...
...Board reaffirms its faith in the vitally constructive services which fraternities perform in the Cornell community and is desirous in all its action to strengthen and broaden the effectiveness of the fraternities...