Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first part endorsed the six principles. But it also called on the council to endorse the 18-nations London conference demand for international control of the canal, a demand that Egypt had rejected often and emphatically, and Russia as well. "A beginning has been made," Lloyd told the council. "The hard problems lie ahead." The hardest problem was right on hand-both Fawzi and Russia's Dmitry Shepilov balked at reviving the point of international control. There was little more to be said, so just before midnight the council came to the vote. Nine delegates voted...
...rumor had run through the hall that Britain had agreed to drop her demand for international controls of the canal, but Sir Anthony's comments were designed to set Tory hearts at rest on that matter. Warning against "hasty or optimistic judgment," he said that "wide differences of opinion" remain. Then, in a passage that pleased the bit-chomping "Suez Group" M.P.s, Eden concluded: "President Eisenhower at his press conference Thursday is reported to have said that you must have peace with justice or it is not peace. I agree with these words. That is why we have always...
Belatedly the government permitted a fraction of the incoming dollars to go into a free market, and forced importers of luxuries to buy them. It reclassified many essentials as luxuries. Growing demand for the free dollar drove it up from 3.75 pesos a year ago to 5.12 last week...
Prepublication demand has been so great that the initial print order was upped from 600,000 to 700,000. By the end of the year, Together expects to have 1,000,000 subscriptions...
...chalked up as little but bluster, blunder, and an inability to see that the future requires change. Dulles' well-known verbal blunders have done a great deal to harm American prestige, but they do not fully account for the precarious position of this country's foreign power. What is demanded, and what the Eisenhower Administration has failed to provide, is a fundamental shift in American foreign policy. The times demand a new attitude toward China, one that will accept the fact that the most populous country in the world now has a Communist government; toward South America, one that will...