Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance of much closer understanding and cooperation between India and the U.S., a land almost unknown to nine-tenths of Nehru's countrymen. Washington was taking careful account of the Prime Minister's longstanding prejudice and his people's instinctive suspicion of the "imperialist West...
...Western ways. A man who likes to wear a Homburg, Nehru has preferred Western dress since his British schooldays (Harrow as well as Cambridge). This preference is one of the contradictions which once made him write of himself: "I have become a queer mixture of the East and West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere...
...generosity has departed with U.S. power and personnel. To the West Berlin city government the Allies barked, "Balance your budget!" A second blow was an order ending U.S. direct subsidies. Henceforth Berlin must get its help from the new West German government at Bonn...
...every four of West Berlin's workers is jobless: a total of 250,000. At the beginning of the blockade the total was 50,000; at the end, 150,000. In five months of "peace,"' 100,000 more have lost their jobs. Why is this...
...Most West Berliners today "trade with the enemy." They turn in their hard West marks at six to one for soft Soviet marks, then buy in East Berlin. A gaunt worker, castigating the Reds, growled about "die Schweine" (the pigs), but he had just got a haircut in the Soviet sector. "Berliners value freedom," a German paper editorialized, "but they can do little with it. They have only the hungry freedom of the unemployed...