Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal of a neutral commission to patrol the Algerian-Tunisian frontier. France's right-wing Independents, clinging blindly to the conviction that France can and must suppress the Algerian rebellion, were equally insistent that, if Bourguiba refused, France must reopen its complaint against Tunisia in the U.N. Security Council, even if the East River air should be rent by abuse...
...forced to choose between France and Tunisia. Diplomatically as it was phrased. President Eisenhower's letter was a clear threat that, if France took its quarrel with Bourguiba to the U.N., the U.S. would do nothing to avert the one thing the French dread-a full-dress Security Council debate on the Algerian...
...decision: France will resume negotiations with Tunisia, but "reserves for itself the right to bring problems concerning control of the Algerian-Tunisian border before an international body." In plain French, this meant that, although France might yet take its case to the Security Council, the charge would be temperately phrased and would not include any demand for U.N. "condemnation" of Bourguiba...
...Protestants got off to a slow start about three years behind the Holy See. When Belgium's few Protestants (approximately 90,000) asked the World Council of Churches about a pavilion, they were told they could use the World Council's name, but not its money. Gradually, support for the idea gained ground. The first contribution from overseas was $560 from New Zealand Protestants; among others, the Belgians set themselves a quota of $20,000; a Netherlands committee is halfway to its goal of $26,000; and in the U.S. the United Church Women are raising...
Replied Larsen, who is also chairman of the advisory board of the National Citizens Council for Better Schools, board chairman of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, and an overseer of Harvard: "I feel that there was something presumptuous, if not insulting, in spelling out to intelligent educators and members of the N.A.S.S.P. precisely what they should think about LIFE'S article and what to do about it. Would it not have been more in the tradition and spirit of free inquiry to suggest to them that they read the whole series of articles in LIFE and then...