Word: defiant
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Later, Coke turned again defiant. The exasperated James retaliated, first by kicking Coke upstairs and creating him Lord Chief Justice of England, second by dismissing him altogether from the bench. It was useless. The "masterful, masterless" Coke merely returned to the House of Commons, where his shrewd advice created endless trouble for James. When Commons suggested that James be petitioned for liberty of speech and action, cagey Edward Coke pointed out to the members the potentially fatal error of begging for something that was already theirs by right of law. "Take heed," he said, "that we lose not our liberties...
Britain's capitulation left France and Israel still defiant of Egypt, but in different ways-Israel eager to use the canal immediately, France angrily hoping to continue a Boycott for better terms. ''Little by little all our friends are walking out on us in felt slippers . . . even Britain, our comrade in misfortune last November," sighed France's L'Economie. But the show of outrage put up by France's Premier Guy Mollet had more to do with internal politics than foreign policy. French shipping interests were no more eager than the British to lose...
...Threats. Behind Ben-Gurion's defiant position stood the will of a tough and self-righteous people. They knew that they might suffer further economic distress by their defiance. It came as no surprise to them when next day, on behalf of six Asian-African nations, Lebanon's Charles Malik introduced the long-delayed U.N. resolution calling on all states "to deny all military, economic or financial assistance" to Israel. Yet for all the Arab hostility to Israel, and all the influence the U.S. can bring to bear, few in the U.N. really wanted to see the resolution...
Though India was still defiant over Kashmir, Jawaharlal Nehru had to pay a price in diminished moral prestige. In what is often the favorite playground of U.N. demagoguery-the touchy subject of colonialism-a unanimous General Assembly last week adopted a moderate resolution encouraging France to work out its own problems in Algeria. And in the complicated Middle East, where religious hatreds, economic rivalries and power struggles all have their angry spokesmen in the U.N., there was a general willingness (to which even Russia had to pay lip service) to try the way of mediation...
Innocent Passage. When word of the U.S. offer flashed through Israel, citizens who had just paraded in defiant anticipation of sanctions could hardly conceal their satisfaction. "We have forced on the State Department a transformation in its thinking," said one. But in Jerusalem, old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was being stubborn. Looking drawn and thin from his three weeks' struggle against pneumonia, he brooded for three days before calling a Cabinet meeting to draft a reply. The U.S. offered nothing new on Gaza. But Dulles' implied willingness to back Israel's Aqaba rights by sending...