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Security Council to the U.S. position on Guatemala (see HEMISPHERE) On this point, Dulles won a little victory: Eden graciously agreed that henceforth Britain would abstain rather than vote against the U.S. on the Guatemala issue...
...street concluded that the Deputies, acting in psychic accord, had engineered the two-vote margin as a stinging reproof to Laniel. Bringing down Laniel could have caused new elections, and the Deputies' own seats would have been in jeopardy. Three Gaullists who had intended to abstain changed their minds and voted for Laniel...
After 7½ hours of wrangling, the Israelis demanded a formal condemnation of Jordan. The deciding vote of the five on the Mixed Armistice Commission was Commander Hutchison's. "I abstain," he said slowly. The investigators for MAC, added Hutchison, "worked almost beyond endurance to establish the guilt. Even so, the evidence is far from conclusive." The Israelis rose, announced that they would no longer participate in the commission and stalked...
Most of the students closely followed the practice but not the preachment of their parents. Three-fifths of the men and one-third of the women drank although ordered not to by their parents. About 70 percent of the students ignored church instructions to abstain, while around 85 percent who were told to restrain themselves by their school teachers drank anyway...
...cries for "united action" were not new. Socialist candidates in the recent municipal elections in France were repeatedly approached by Communists who offered to pool votes and abstain from hostile propaganda. Then, as now, the Socialists rejected all approaches. But there was a new note of determination in the rejection. Speaking in France's National Assembly, influential Socialist Charles Lussy declared: "To speak of unity of action today, after the events which we know, seems to me rather misplaced, particularly on the day after the unity of action of the German workers was shattered by the fire of Soviet...