Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fall. Then in 1929, business collapsed. The Democrats seized the chance to launch a new principle: "The forces of government were directed, not to the restoration of business alone, but toward the rehabilitation of the suffering and destitute of the entire nation . . . Having no public domain to give away and no other government assets, it would pay for all this by taking money away from those who had it, mainly from Republicans and Big Business, and giving it to those who needed...
Short-Range. The short-range objectives are supposed to establish sane and honest conditions for freer trade in Western Europe as soon as possible, and to prod its industry into more competition and greater efficiency. The U.S. Congress will expect to be shown considerable progress toward these objectives when it considers iQSo's EGA appropriations early next year. The objectives...
...Making OEEC, now mainly an advisory body, ECA's chosen instrument of integration, with clear responsibilities and enough political weight to compel member nations to abide by its decisions. One important step toward this goal: appointment of a strong OEEC secretary (possible candidates: Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, now ambassador to the U.S., and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, first President of the Assembly of the Council of Europe...
...plea for basic human rights which must belong to black as well as white, lest all Africa be driven in time toward a racial holocaust. He quoted Herero tribesmen who dreaded annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...
...ruled by Konrad Adenauer still bears the brutal stamp of total defeat. It also bears the pale, pinched look of poverty. The free-enterprise economic policies, put to work under military government, have led West Germany's 46 million hard-working people from near-starvation a long way toward recovery. But the country's economy is still far from healthy. Most of the shops are full, but intelligent Germans tell Americans: "What we see in the store windows are your dollars." It is nearly $1 billion a year from the U.S. which keeps West Germany going...