Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a big classroom of spirited boys with teacher out sick and vacation only a few days off. Good-naturedly, the Southern Democrats exchanged verbal spitballs with Northern Republicans and Democrats while both sides talked on for the sake of the record. Everybody knew that the Southern bloc had delayed the bill* so long that it would never get by the Senate this session. So the proceedings went forward in a spirit of good, dirty, cynical...
East Europe. Communist Rumania flagged Washington that it accepts in principle the Eisenhower plan for a wider "people-to-people" exchange with Soviet bloc countries and the mutual establishment of information (books, periodicals) centers. Noted with interest by State: Rumania accepted, even though Moscow's Pravda has charged that the information-center plan is part of a U.S. effort to carry out espionage...
...from London to counter local apathy at the polls. The Tory candidate, 39-year old Stockbroker Donald Box, was a local product; his Labor opponent, Sir Frank Soskice, an outsider. The choice between them rested with an electorate whose light Labor majority is well-tempered by a solidly Conservative bloc of prosperous farm owners, shopkeepers and small businessmen. The result: 6,811 fewer voters went to the polls than last year, yet Labor increased its majority by 4,125 votes...
...laws gave it only 19 seats in the Althing (parliament), a loss of two seats. An alliance of Progressive and Social Democrat parties won a commanding 25 seats (two short of majority). Holding the balance of power with eight seats: the Communists. They are strong among fishermen (the Soviet bloc has replaced Britain as the leading market for Iceland's main crop, fish...
...Canadians warned the Indians. "There's really no new look there. It's the same old look, and just as dangerous. Don't trust them an inch." At the conference sessions held in the Cabinet room at No. 10 Downing Street, Commonwealth relations with the Communist bloc were the main topic. Again the Asians argued for a softer policy, while the Canadians firmly opposed any letdown. At times the vigor of St. Laurent's and Pearson's objections seemed almost out of character, since at other conferences (particularly with U.S. diplomats) the Canadians have often...