Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already the pent-up tide of trade had rushed past the diplomats. Last week the unofficial boycott which several Western governments had managed to maintain against the reopened canal crumbled under shipowners' pressure. The first British ship since last October's invasion-the freighter West Breeze with a cargo of peanuts from Hong Kong-went through the canal and paid its dues in Swiss francs (Nasser has not yet consented to accept either French or British currencies). The ship was chartered by a Hong Kong firm doing business with Red China; nonetheless the flag that fluttered from...
America has done a great deal to sell herself abroad. She has entered monstrous exhibits at trade fairs, spent millions of dollars on information services, sponsored trips of prominent Negroes to talk on America's progress in civil rights, and constantly affirmed her desire for peace. In some areas these programs have shown successful results, but behind the Iron Curtain, where there is a burning curiosity among the people to find out about America, our propagandists are either non-existent or useless...
TOKYO, April 21--Strong economic pressure lies behind Japan's drive to ease restrictions on trade with Red China imposed by agreement between Japan, the United States and other Western powers...
This drive achieved an initial and partial success yesterday. The United States, bowing to Japanese and British pressure, announced it was proposing to other countries which restrict export of strategic goods to Communist countries a partial relaxation of the limitations on trade with Peiping, combined with a certain tightening of restrictions on trade with the Soviet bloc in Europe...
There have been two main motivating forces behind Japanese desires for relaxation of the restrictions on trade with Communist China...