Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foreign Policy. To the surprise of the doom criers who predicted Communist advances on every front, the Eisenhower Administration has won incalculable prestige for the U.S.-and domestic support from all political creeds-by sending troops to stop trouble in Lebanon and sending ships and planes in answer to Chinese Communist threats in the Far East...
Alarm & Excursion. As the screw tightened, governments around the world registered concern. Overnight, Philippine President Carlos Garcia created a National Security Council that expressed support for the U.S. position on Formosa; but the President added that the Philippine Republic itself would go to war only "if the U.S. bases in the Philippines are attacked." Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suggested that the U.N. take up the dispute-thereby playing into the hands of Peking, which has been fighting for years for acceptance into...
Verwoerd's newspaper, Die Transvaler, triumphantly headlined every Nazi victory in World War II, railed against "British Jewish liberalism." When he was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, Verwoerd sued for libel. But the judge ruled that Editor Verwoerd "did support Nazi propaganda; he did make his newspaper a tool of the Nazis in South Africa, and he knew...
...year-old father with chronic heart trouble expected his oldest son to support the family. When the son abruptly left home to join the Navy, the father felt hopeless and his condition worsened. After the son wrote that he would not come home on his first furlough, the father wound up in the hospital. A day later he died of ventricular fibrillation...
...Robert B. Anderson last week got some travel orders from President Eisenhower. Wrote Ike: "The time has now come for us to consider, together with the other members of these two agencies, how we can better equip them for the tasks of the decade ahead." Anderson's orders: support increases in member-nation contributions to the bank and the fund. In addition, he was ordered to open negotiations toward establishing a third fund subscribed to by bank members and known as the International Development Association...