Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urgently, President Eisenhower sought to head off a conflict. He fired off a personal message to Ben-Gurion expressing "my grave concern," warning him against any "forceful initiative . . . which would endanger the peace." The Administration kept congressional leaders informed of the fast-racing developments. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson reminded a national TV audience that the U.S. was committed (by the 1950 tripartite pact with Britain and France) to fight any aggressor in the Middle East "if it is real aggression," but that the U.S. purpose was to "try to talk everybody into being reasonable." The State Department warned...
...must -and we shall-go on striving to do all in our power to heal old wounds, rather than let them re-open into bloodshed. We can-and we do-use the full moral power of America to direct the purposes of all nations away from conflict and towards concord...
...Soviet threat, has deep divisions within it, divisions which result from the combined issue of nationalism and anti-colonialism. This issue is likely to become more complex and more divisive as Soviet military expansion recedes as a threat. The United States, Canada, and India have emerged from this conflict as three key powers untouched by the onus of colonialism, and Communist China has kept itself relatively free from association with Soviet colonialism in Europe...
Meanwhile, Israeli forces advanced into the Sinai Peninsula along a 70-mile front. Unofficial reports still placed an advance Israeli group within 18 1/2 miles of the canal, although the Egyptians claimed they had smashed an Israeli column. Both nations' air forces were brought into the conflict...
...turns out, a shrewder tactician. Heckled for such a political about-face, Shaw insisted-in one of those prefaces of his which are more like second times at bat-that King and Prime Minister not only are not winner and loser, but are not even basic antagonists. "The conflict," Shaw asserts, "is not really between royalty and democracy. It is between both and plutocracy." King and Prime Minister are thus equally puppets, while it is Breakages, Ltd-England's super-industrialists-who actually rule...