Word: accomplies
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...biding their time "Slow penetration" is the party line. "This amounts to a silent, courteous revolution, gaining ground through good manners, a revolution carried out with the backing of the law, with no haste, moving from one election to the next, finally pre- senting the nation with a fait accompli, without provoking strong reactions, and with hardly anybody realizing what is happening...
...time in the last few years that the United States has made a major policy shift without sufficient inter-allied co-ordination. In 1950, High Commissioner McCloy announced that Germany would be rearmed. The French, who had different views on this matter, found themselves faced with a virtual fait accompli, and proposed a unified force (the beginnings of E.D.C.) as a compromise instead of a German army. The Korean War also illustrated the possible consequences of uni-lateral action. The situation that developed when General MacArthur wanted to bomb Manchuria resulted from U.S. failure to consult with the other...
Syria, which opposes any project that might benefit Israel, bristled that the canal was an armistice violation; from U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Vagn Bennike came a warning to the Israelis: "Cease working." The Israelis, who believe in fait accompli, put their bulldozers on three shifts. But when the U.S. suspended aid to Israel for its defiance of U.N., Israel capitulated and agreed to let the Security Council decide the dispute...
Sharett, a cautious legalist by temperament, will probably pay more heed to the U.N. and to Western wishes than his rambunctious predecessor. For Sharett believes in the give & take of negotiation, while B-G believed more in the power of a fait accompli. The two clashed violently over Israel's defiance of the U.N. on the Jordan dam project, and over the Kibya massacre...
...passed since the U.S. and Britain announced their plan to break the eight-year-old deadlock over Trieste. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia was expected to boil with anger, and he did. But he was also expected to calm down and resign himself grudgingly to the Allies' fait accompli. The disquieting fact last week was that Tito showed little sign of calming down...