Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manifest right of any of these nations to take such decisions and actions, it is likewise our right, if our judgment so dictates, to dissent. We believe these actions to have been taken in error. For we do not accept the use of force as a wise or proper instrument for the settlement of international disputes...
...justification, feebly put at the outset, but more and more emphatically later, is that Britain had lost faith in the U.N. It had decided to return to the loth century pattern of a big power's imposing peace and demanding of the rest of the world that it accept the result on the grounds that its methods are decisive and its motives high-minded. This classic role of self-appointed proctor of the world was reflected last week by that heroic defender of Empire, Sir Winston Churchill, who proclaimed: "Not for the first time, we have acted independently...
According to Plan. At 4:30 p.m. British time (11:30 a.m. Washington time), Eden announced the ultimatum?an ultimatum that demanded in effect that Egypt withdraw 100 miles from its own frontiers and accept British-French occupation of the Canal Zone on the ground that the British and French had to protect the canal from the Israelis (they then proceeded to bomb not the Israelis but the Egyptians). Neither the U.S. nor the Commonwealth was notified until 15 minutes later. The President of the U.S. learned of the ultimatum in Jacksonville, Fla. by news ticker...
...Menace. But any cease-fire depended utterly on the Anglo-French, and they were unwilling to halt action until they had achieved their goal of grabbing the Canal Zone from Egypt. They might be willing to accept a U.N. police force in the Canal Zone if everyone else agreed, but their conditions were in fact a refusal...
Professor Eliot, an international leader in the development of maternal and child care programs, will relinquish her post as Chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau to accept the Harvard position on Jan. 1, 1957. A graduate of Radcliffe, she has headed the Children's Bureau since...