Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Staff work for possible use of armed force to retake Suez, according to the Brombergers, was begun in a secret bombproof bunker beneath the Thames in early September. The operation, known as "Project Terrapin," was in military readiness by Sept. 20. At this time there had been no mention of the inclusion of Israel. But on Oct. 14 the Israelis advised Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury of their intention to invade Sinai, asking at the same time for extra military supplies. Bourges-Maunoury rushed over to the Hotel Matignon, say the Brombergers, bringing to Premier Guy Mollet "on a silver platter...
John K. Fairbank '29, Professor of History, yesterday labeled as "unfounded speculations" the remarks of Colonel Laurence E. Bunker '26 on the suicide of Herbert Norman, Canadian ambassador to Egypt...
...Bunker, a candidate by certificate for the Board of Overseers, told a meeting sponsored by the HYRC Wednesday night that Norman was a "man known to have close associations with men in Communist circles" and that "one doesn't commit suicide under those circumstances unless something is about to catch up with...
...continued that '"suicide is seldom a simple matter and I consequently deplore as ill-considered the remarks" of Colonel Bunker...
...Bunker asserted that the "cold war" is a "civil war of civilization" over the question of whether the people should control the state or the state control the people. Failure to recognize that foreign policy must be based on taking one side of this question uncompromisingly, leads to the principle of "expediency" in determining policy...