Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru's visit had originally been planned for last summer but was postponed because of Ike's ileitis operation. Many a Washingtonian thought the new timing a good thing. For Nehru, who in the past has been tempted to juggle a diplomatic double standard of conduct, has come to Washington with the refreshed understanding that U.S. policy countenances no double standard...
...FOOTNOTE*-A typically cumbersome Marxist phrase, "great nation chauvinism" is also used by Peking to reproach Moscow's heavy-handed conduct in Hungary and Poland...
Randolph Churchill, who can be counted upon to put most snidely what others may be thinking, compared Eden's generalship with Hitler's conduct in leading his troops to Stalingrad and leaving them there, except that "Hitler, with all his faults, did not winter in Jamaica." The Conservative Daily Telegraph reported Eden in Jamaica keeping in "fitful touch with London." which was not "fair to his colleagues in London-or, indeed, to the country." In the bars of Fleet Street and the clubs of St. James's, Eden's future and a possible realignment of Tory...
...banquet in the Peloponnesian city of Kalamata last week, King Paul of Greece casually broke the first rule of conduct for modern monarchs: he expressed a personal political opinion. Horrified by the slaughter in Hungary, the outspoken King called for a relentless fight against Communism, which he called "the enemy of all humanity...
Although he was hired primarily as an administrator, he has been called on to make policy decisions during Dulles' absences. His conduct during the Saudi Arabian tank controversy and his demand that Nationalist China be included as an "equal" in U.S.-Red China negotiations over Formosa were notably inept actions, and certainly disenchanted the White House...