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...crisis picked up momentum by the minute. Lights burned late at State. the Treasury Department, the Pentagon. The British ordered drastic economic sanctions designed to bring Nasser down. Unofficially, Britain hoped the U.S. would not only follow suit, but would cut off further aid to Nasser and perhaps disrupt Egypt's cotton market by dumping U.S. surplus cotton abroad (a move that would also disrupt such cotton-growing friends as Mexico and Brazil). The French were talking of a military landing. All seemed to hope mightily for support from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, which was not promised...
Southerners politely applauded Harriman's retreat from antimoderation, hoped that it signified that the Harriman forces were abandoning their plan to disrupt the platform-writing sessions in Chicago with an unequivocal demand for a strong civil-rights plank. But Southerners were still cool and suspicious toward Candidate...
...present world situation, Khrushchev suggested, is "to give up war altogether" and "ultimately to abolish armed forces." Entering the college, B. & K. had been rudely greeted by a loudspeaker from across the river Thames: "Here come Marshal Bulganin and Khrushchev. They are here to destroy mankind and disrupt our Empire." The voice was that of a member of the League of Empire Loyalists which, earlier in the week, had presented Prime Minister Eden with a 10-ft.-long wooden spoon to illustrate an old-but non-Russian-saying: "He must have a long spoon who sups with the Devil...
...policy from threats to offers of aid "significant testimony to the success of our Mutual Security program." But he added that the U.S., until it has further evidence, "must assume that Soviet expansionism has merely taken on a somewhat different guise and that its fundamental objective is still to disrupt and in the end to dominate the free nations...
...only University organization that was praised at all by Root, "a radical conservative," is the Harvard Conservative League, formed by Quinlan J. Shea '56, but Root asserted that the organization was "infiltered" by the "collectivist left, a boring from within, a Trojan Horse technique, which helped to disrupt the Conservative League...