Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After hearing these profitless exchanges, delegates decided that not Korea but colonialism gave most promise of lively fights to come. The 13 anticolonial Arab-Asian powers, defeated in the last session, got together and succeeded in placing on the agenda a proposal to debate 1) France's rule in Tunisia and Morocco, and 2) South Africa's virulent racism. They won despite protests from France, Britain, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand that such debates constitute "meddling" in internal affairs. The U.S. haplessly reversed its stand of last year, opposed its European allies and joined the anti-colonials...
...appointment of Kirby L. C. Von Kessler '54 to the Council as chairman of the International Activities Committee was on the agenda, but had to be postponed because of the absence of more than a third of the Council members...
Arms. First big issue on the Margate agenda was rearmament, denounced in two big package resolutions inspired by the Communists. They hewed closely to the Kremlin line: rearmament is warmongering; friendship with Germany and Japan is truckling with fascism; Americans in general and Dwight D. Eisenhower in particular are bloodthirsty counterrevolutionaries intent on provoking World...
...close, critical look at the domestic policies of its Commonwealth cousins would show where a good part of the responsibility lies for the sterling area's ills. The government instructed Norman Robertson, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, to put a discussion of those policies on the conference agenda. Explained one Canadian economist: "The balance of payment deficit must be stopped, and stopped permanently, and though it may sound hardhearted, that's something those countries have to work out for themselves." Canada, he added, expects countries like India and Pakistan to have deficits ("You can't tighten...
...country. The U.N. Assembly had already set up a commission to determine whether such elections could be held in West Germany, Berlin and East Germany, but the commission was denied access to the Soviet zone. Last week Moscow grudgingly accepted discussion of an election commission as part of the agenda for its proposed Big Four meeting, although denouncing it as an "insult" to the German people. On the surface this looked like a change of stance for the Russians-but the gimmick was not hard to find. The election commission was relegated to Item 3 on the proposed agenda. Items...