Word: consulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pity that Mr. Graubard did not find time to consult the diplomatic record; another dimension would have been added to his admirable study, and its usefulness in illuminating a too-little-known part of Labour's history would have been considerably increased...
Meanwhile, in Budapest yesterday, Worthy said he may ask the State Department for an open formal hearing in Hungary on a directive that he must return to the United States. He also said he is going to consult with the American Civil Liberties Union, which has promised to make a test case of State Department passport restrictions against travel by American correspondents in Communist China...
...cannot, myself, see any possibility of drawing a distinction on a geographical basis, so that we consult about one area and not about another. Things are much too mixed up for that." Gaitskell said he hoped that the Anglo-French action in the Middle East has created a "revulsion against anybody doing any-thing of the kind again...
Keeping in Step. After that, the NATO nations fell over each other in proposing new devices to keep future policies in step. Italy's Gaetano Martino proposed a permanent consultative body to develop a "common Western policy" for areas both inside and outside the NATO areas. West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano suggested an amendment to the treaty itself which would require each NATO nation to consult others on problems affecting the alliance. France's Christian Pineau wanted obligatory consultation on all foreign policies. Even more grandiosely, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd suggested a "grand design...
...allies a code of international rules, all the while reserving the right not to respect them herself." NATO's new Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak (see box) was more understanding. "After all, you couldn't expect a country the size of the U.S. to promise to consult a little country like Belgium before taking action on every problem posed to it anywhere in the world." The council approved the three wise men's recommendation that...