Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proving disconcertingly able to run the canal by himself. As long as the canal remained open, the smaller nations were unwilling to shoulder the extra cost of sending their ships around the cape. Scandinavia, West Germany and Italy were unhappy at the thought of jeopardizing their trade with the Arab world. Most argued that a boycott would cost them more than it would cost Nasser...
...Hungarian Party and Chervenkov out of the Bulgarian. Your pal Gomulka was rehabilitated in Poland, Rajk in Hungary and Kostov in Bulgaria. We dissolved the Cominform. We had the parts of the Slansky trial that reflected on you struck from the record. We paid off for the trade damage the Cominform blockade did to you and got the satellites to do the same. We don't feel obliged to do anything more. And, by the way, in the U.S.S.R. destalinization is over. Now we all get back to the work of building Communism...
...Japan, Reischauer found healthy political, economic, and social progress since the end of the last world war. Economically, he noted the growth of factories and technical knowledge and the "modernization" of Japanese industry. He considers unlikely the prospect of any great amount of trade developing between Japan and Communist China...
...countries in the Far East with which the United States has the most dealings--Korea, Formosa, and Vietnam. Korea, for example, has significant relations only with the U. S. The same holds true to a lesser extent for the other three. Although Formosa and Japan engage in some mutual trade, there is really very little economic, personal, or intellectual contact between any of the four countries. Their main contact with each other is through the west...
Perhaps the most important service rendered by Biographer Ervine is a reminder that the critics are wrong in taking everything Shaw said about himself at face value. He told, for instance, how he had sponged off his mother while he was trying to learn his trade as a writer. This picture of the callous genius-which was to appear in many of his plays-delighted him, but it was totally untrue, says Ervine. Similarly, Shaw roared outrageous-and contradictory-political, social and economic opinions that, often as not, were hyperbole...