Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus Affair...
...REFLECTING UPON YOUR COVERAGE OF THE FAUBUS AFFAIR [SEPT. 23], I HEAR ONLY THE MOCKING LAUGH OF HISTORY - AT THOSE OF MY FELLOW SOUTHERNERS WHO WOULD HOLD BACK THE TIDE OF SOCIAL GROWTH WITH THE MINNOW SEINE OF TRUTHLESS REASON...
...severe blow to imperialist politics." But in the kind of parting gesture Arabs make so much of, Saud shook hands with President Kuwatly, then before getting into his plane went out of his way to seek out and shake hands with U.S. Embassy Chargé d'Affairés Robert Strong. There was no joint communiqué on parting, and not a word from Saud endorsing "positive neutrality...
...case reached court-and though the Portuguese right to be in Goa was not at stake, the subject kept coming up. India had hired a potent battery of British lawyers, including former Socialist Attorney General Sir Frank Soskice, to argue that travel inside its own borders is an internal affair of India and that the court has no jurisdiction. The Indians also complained bitterly that the Portuguese had "sneaked" the case before the World Court within a week of being admitted, with India's help, to the U.N., and within two days of accepting the court's jurisdiction...
Certain other issues further discourage European confidence in America. The segregation incidents, of course, weigh heavily on Continental consciences, fed by the leftist press and Communist agitators. Across the Channel, Great Britain still harbors considerable resentment over Washington's role in the Suez affair...