Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alarm & Excursion. As the screw tightened, governments around the world registered concern. Overnight, Philippine President Carlos Garcia created a National Security Council that expressed support for the U.S. position on Formosa; but the President added that the Philippine Republic itself would go to war only "if the U.S. bases in the Philippines are attacked." Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suggested that the U.N. take up the dispute-thereby playing into the hands of Peking, which has been fighting for years for acceptance into...
...China, and this fact should be recognized and acted upon peacefully." The British government, moved by its fisheries "war" with Iceland (see below) to take a stern stand against Peking's new claim to a twelve-mile limit, publicly announced that it "fully shared" U.S. concern over events in the Formosa Strait. But in private, British Foreign Office spokesmen made no bones of their lack of enthusiasm at the prospect of active U.S. participation in defense of the offshore islands...
Rising Tide. As Commonwealth ministers from the West Indies and Africa flew hastily into London to express "grave concern" over the continuing riots, the British government seemed to be more than ever at a loss just what to do about it. Home Secretary R. A. Butler, speaking to a Conservative rally at Saffron Waiden, carefully avoided committing himself to anything. "It has always been the right of British citizenship to come in and out of the mother country at will, and it will need considerable force of argument to alter this policy," he said. On the other hand, Butler noted...
...placed fortnight ago by Dr. Henry Beric Wright, 40, medical secretary of the Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control. A surgeon worried about the world's exploding population, Wright learned his concern at the knee of his family-planning mother, Helena Wright, who has urged Britons for years to breed in tight little island size. Wright and his wife recently exported the message to a new birth control clinic in Trinidad, there met the same obstacle that baffles all modern Malthusians-contraceptives are just too much bother for the earth's fastest-breeding peoples. Trinidadians shunned...
Last week Singapore's Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, whose usual concern is fighting the Communist penetration of Singapore's overseas Chinese colony, declared the gang wars to be a state emergency, and asserted the government's right to hold young gangsters up to two years without trial. Even the Communist party-liners in the Legislative Assembly made no objection to this stern remedy. Police, under the new edict, promptly rounded up 80 gangland suspects...