Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greatest Challenge. In pushing toward broader aid and freer trade, Anderson is serving, as he sees it, not only the interests of the U.S. but the interests of all the free world. In his global view, his policies at home and his policies abroad are interdependent, just as the U.S. and the rest of the free world are interdependent. By fighting for sound money at home, he can encourage freer world trade by keeping the world's reserve currency, the U.S. dollar, dependably stable. By persuading Western Europe to assume a fair share of the foreign-aid burden...
...attitude, suggested De Gaulle, is the personality of Nikita Khrushchev, "discerning as he does that at the supreme level of responsibility," peace "is the supreme realism." But along with this tribute to his future guest, De Gaulle coolly offered the opinion that Russia had good cause to be conciliatory toward the West, since, internationally, the Soviets are leading from several weaknesses. There are the natural aspirations of the Russian people, after 42 years of Communist rule, for a better life and freedom; there is Soviet awareness that, while by force and through intermediaries, "it may reign over Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary...
...isolation from the Continent may have been a historic mistake in foreign policy. But dominant forces in both the Conservative and Labor parties seem reluctant to leave the safety of the three familiar circles. The old isolation speaks to something basic in British pride. The government's attitude toward Europe still seems to be to procrastinate and to improvise. Britons argue that Franco-German amity is unnatural, that a European movement without Britain is bound to fade once De Gaulle or Adenauer is gone, and that the Common Market structure of the Inner Six may well pass into history...
...Bargains. Egypt, which needs the High Dam at Aswan to help raise the appallingly low standard of living of its people, belatedly hopes to save at least some of its treasure house of antiquities along the Nubian Nile. As a result, it is playing down its habitual nationalist antagonism toward foreign archaeologists. Instead of permitting foreign diggers to take away only a limited amount of their finds, Culture Minister Okasha offers participating governments one-half of all objects unearthed in any new excavations they make in the lands to be flooded.* Further, he promises to give other ancient monuments...
...conference took place just 200 miles from Bandung, where in 1955 newly liberated Afro-Asian nations, full of hostility toward their former rulers, joined in opposition to all colonialism. Red China was there too. Since then Red China has lost friends over Tibet, the older Western nations have won increased understanding of their own motives because they have learned to understand the new nation better, and the new nations themselves have gained in political maturity. The harsh spirit of Bandung was hardly detectable among the delegates who in Jogjakarta last week enthusiastically voted to continue the Colombo Plan until...