Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Jordan's virtual loss, Britain saw her own position in the Arab world crumbling. Britain was bitter and disillusioned at the failure of her efforts to bring Nasser to heel. In the U.N., the Russians had just vetoed the latest effort to force a solution on Egypt. Both British...
But in a matter of hours after Eisen hower's statement, State Department officials concluded that Britain considered the Tripartite Agreement a dead letter. That afternoon Dulles summoned British and French diplomats to get their cooperation in calling an early emergency meeting of the Security Council. They stalled. Apparently they...
Dixon was followed by John Foster Dulles, who had flown in from Washington. "I doubt," began Dulles, "that any delegate ever spoke from this forum with as heavy a heart. We speak on a matter of vital importance where the U.S. finds itself unable to agree with three nations with...
When the roll was finally called at 2:30 in the morning, 64 nations voted in favor of Dulles' resolution. Six nations, including a troubled Canada, abstained. Britain, France and Israel could muster up only two other votes-Australia and New Zealand-against the ceasefire.
Even so, by the time the General Assembly called the first emergency special session in its eleven-year history, it was clear that the Times's caustic judgment had roweled both NBC and CBS into at least limited action (ABC pre-empted only one half-hour show the entire...