Word: cedes
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...notable exception: the late Ernest Bevin, one of whose pithier diplomatic exchanges was recounted in London last week by an old friend. Soon after Bevin took office with the Labor government in 1945, the Guatemalan minister in London asked for an audience. His mission: he wanted Britain to cede neighboring British Honduras to Guatemala. After a long, cool stare at the Guatemalan, Bevin politely asked: "What country do you say you represent?" The minister told him. "How do you spell it?" said Bevin. Irritably, the minister spelled out G-u-a-t-e-m-a-1-a. Again Bevin stared...
While I use that word reactionary in a nonpejorative sense, I realize that it may irritate supporters of Senator Goldwater; and I would therefore suggest respectfully that he henceforth be known as a "restorationist." In any case, to cede him all rights to the proud citadel of conservatism is to banish Dwight...
Poor Mr. Kennedy, however, has been unable to formulate any effective reply to the argument that we should not cede one inch of free territory. The mere fact that the two groups of islands are not included within the mandatory treaty area is not a reason for surrendering them. Furthermore, Kennedy has exhibited a strange reluctance to cite the perfectly analogous case of the Administration's withdrawal from the Tachen islands when they were under bombardment in the beginning...
...time of last year's independence declaration, when he was trying to make a reputation as a special friend of the Arabs, Franco secretly agreed to cede Southern Morocco to the Moroccans some time in the future. He has since changed his mind. Reason: prospectors have found indications that the sandy wastes of Spanish Sahara, like the French Sahara farther east, may hold oil, a resource to be found nowhere else in Spanish territory. At week's end. Franco rushed 3,500 more troops into Ifni and had beefed up his Spanish West Africa garrison...
...that oil has been found in the Negeb, we will never leave," said one Israeli. At any rate, the Negeb's boon was not going to make any easier U.S. Secretary of State Dulles' effort to persuade Israel to cede some of the desert to the Arabs in return for a peace treaty...