Word: cadogan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evacuation of British troops now occupying the Nile Valley and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was demanded by Prime Minister Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt at Lake Success yesterday. It was the second time the African nation had made the appeal within a week, and British representative Sir Alexander Cadogan again replied with bitterness...
...Alexander Cadogan, British delegate, then made a 10,000-word statement which he said was intended to set the record straight. Each side now has spoken twice and Cadogan said he would reply later to Nokrashy Pasha's speech of today...
...point in discussing Palestine until a neutral U.N. inquiry commission had studied the problem and made its recommendations. Neither Britain nor the U.S. wanted to serve on such a commission. Both wanted it made up of a small group of small, disinterested states. Said Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan: Britain cannot properly be "at times in the witness stand, and then . . . with the jury." Retorted Yugoslavia's Sava Kosanovic: "Dante puts neutral opinions in the Inferno...
...Irresponsible use of the veto" was deprecated by Cadogan, but he declared that "nothing is wrong with the U.N. charter. It all depends on how the veto is employed. The U. N. is not a cure-all," he stated, "but merely an instrument whose effectiveness rests on the aims of its users...
...discussing the future of the U. N. Cadogan stated that world federalism "must be the ultimate hope of all of us but cannot be obtained in one leap...