Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will the issues that concern Britain weigh with them, and vice versa? Confessed one M.P.: "For a number of years, maybe quite a few, there would be inevitably a sense of unreality about the functions they would discharge as members of this House." No one seemed anxious to discuss the possibility of applications from 20 other British colonies. Gambia, a small British outpost in West Africa, has already announced that it, too, would like to send representatives to Westminster...
...campaign and economic boycott. The charge: they have aided the cause of Negro equality. But the boycott movement goes far beyond the phonetic Fs and, as practiced by both whites and Negroes, has spread to nearly a score of other companies. Most of the affected companies are reluctant to discuss the subject. Says the general manager of the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Birmingham: "I could tell you a whole lot about it, but I'd just rather not say anything." Says an official of the Kraft Foods Co. (which was criticized for sponsoring a television showing of Eugene...
...policy, a tentative reshaping of plans. In Paris, U.S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon made clear the U.S. attitude toward France and North Africa. All three big Western powers moved to concert policies elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Premier Guy Mollet urged that the Big Three Foreign Ministers meet in Paris to discuss Middle East policies, suggested that the time was coming to ask for a U.N. embargo on the sale of arms either to Arab or Jew. Britain warned both sides that it would take "swift military action" if war broke out across the tense IsraeliArab borders. The U.S. asked...
...Morocco Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef agreed at last to go to Spain to discuss freedom for Spanish Morocco. Franco is reportedly ready to hand over the Spanish zone in exchange for Spain's continued right to maintain its military bases there. Spanish government propagandists, busily preparing public opinion for the loss of its protectorate in North Africa, were still trying to pose as the friend of the Arabs. "We went there to fulfill a protective mission," said one release, "not solicited by us, but placed upon us by international agreements...
...January 1954 issue Confidential called Editor Stuart, among other things, an admitted extortioner, a hate peddler and a coddler of Communists. To keep the $9,000 in settlement of his $250,000 suit (and presumably to keep Confidential's vulnerability confidential). Stuart had to agree not to discuss the case or publicize it beyond printing the outcome in his paper. Confidential's lawyers can now turn their attention to the magazine's other libel suits filed by such better-known figures as Doris Duke, Errol Flynn and Robert Mitchum, and totaling at the latest count...