Word: abba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abba Eban, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S LL.D...
...editors, said he would not let Israeli ships through. In Washington, President Eisenhower indicated that the U.S. had made no such binding commitment on Suez as on Aqaba, and that furthermore, Ben-Gurion. in his letter to Ike, had not even mentioned Suez. This brought Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban around to the U.S. State Department to say that his government attached great importance to the canal issue, and expected U.S. backing.* Through Cairo's fog of propaganda and rumor, no sign could be seen that Egypt's Nasser intends ending his six-year defiance...
...Gaza's civil administration was a long way from the unilateral "assumptions" that Israel had depended upon in agreeing to withdraw from Gaza. Premier Ben-Gurion gravely faced the Knesset and warned that Israel's troops might soon have to march again. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban was called away from a well-earned Florida vacation to present to Acting State Secretary Christian Herter a Ben-Gurion message describing the situation as extremely critical...
...Israelis must not expect the U.S. to say so too explicitly. So began a semantic battle requiring a conditioned Israel withdrawal involving what could not be described as conditions. The happy substitute that emerged was the word assumptions. On Feb. 11 John Foster Dulles handed Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban an aide-memoire. As soon as Israel pulled out, Dulles said, the U.S. would 1) itself proclaim the right of innocent passage in the Gulf of Aqaba, and 2) support U.N. action to ensure that the Gaza Strip would not again be used as a base for guerrilla raids...
...could talk. The U.N.'s own tireless Dag Hammarskjold said he had got Egypt to agree to let the U.N. deploy into the Gaza Strip. The President received a letter from Israel's Ben-Gurion that was considered "constructive," whereupon Israel's Ambassador to the U.S..Abba Eban, flew back from Israel. Dulles held an unusual Sunday conference at his home with congressional leaders, then a few hours later met with Eban. and a new round of diplomacy got under way. But should Israel remain recalcitrant, the President of the U.S. intended-to stand on his demand...