Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoeshine (Alfa; Lopert) may strengthen a suspicion that the best movies in the world are being made, just now, in Italy. U.S. audiences have seen only one other important Italian picture, Open City. Shoeshine, in some respects, is even better...
...Joint defense is a commitment of the highest solemnity," cried Bodet. "But solemn as that commitment may be, that of constant mutual help should be equally solemn, in order to strengthen the defensive capacity of the hemisphere. Mexico considers that one of the deepest yearnings of the continent is to develop the economic cooperation of our countries to the end that many of them shall not become simply armored invalids artificially ironclad in time of emergency, but rather communities that are strong through production, sound through equitable exploitation of their resources. Nations that are weak owing to their economy will...
...from the U.S. The U.S. is hardly less interested in the subject than the Latins themselves. Since 1942, the U.S. has sent south $796 million in Lend-Lease and Export-Import Bank loans; Latin America is peppered with U.S. technicians lent to help the other republics strengthen their economies. So Secretary of State George Marshall understood that Bodet spoke sound doctrine in his conference speech. But the U.S. wanted a defense treaty first. It would then be willing and ready to tackle economic problems at the Bogota conference next January. The U.S. view seemed likely to-prevail. At week...
...Right to Lie. Hocking would cut the moral props out from under the liars and strengthen the conviction of moral responsibility in the free press: "The right to be in error in the pursuit of truth does not include a moral right to be deliberately in error. . . . Since the claim to the rights of free speech and free press rests on duty of a man to his thought and to his social existence, when this duty is ignored or rejected-as it is rejected when the issuer is a liar, an editorial prostitute whose political judgments can be bought...
...past seemed less important than the highway's future. Mexico was going ahead, would have the road completed by 1949 from border to border. Said Salvadoran President Castaneda: "The Government and people of El Salvador want to see the highway finished through Central America. It will strengthen the economic unity and friendship of our countries...