Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guerrillas had been defeated in Greece, but the West feared that new attacks might be launched from Albanian and Bulgarian soil. The U.S., Britain, China and Australia introduced a motion asking for an embargo on arms to Albania and Bulgaria, until they were certified by UNSCOB as having stopped all aid to Greek Communists. Last week the embargo motion was approved by the U.N. Assembly's Political Committee, with only the Communist bloc (including Yugoslavia) voting against...
...Hawaii, the iron-fisted embargo that Harry Bridges' C.I.O. longshoremen had clamped around Honolulu's reef-ringed harbor last May (TIME, July 4) was beginning to rust through in several places. The trickle of cargo that had begun when the territorial government seized the docks seven weeks ago was growing to a stream. Freighters arrived and unloaded autos, Christmas tinsel, cattle feed, canned soup and nylons, left the same day with their holds crammed with bagged raw sugar and cases of pineapple. But when the pineapple-laden freighters hit the U.S. West Coast, their "hot" cargoes found...
...announced that the ban was lifted. Each issue of TIME, however, would have to be reviewed by the Customs for "objection able material" before being released. For a while newsstand copies were admitted, but subscriber copies met a postal censorship which developed into an outright, though unannounced, embargo. No matter how hard he tried, Correspondent Johnson was never able to see the Postmaster General...
Speed is essential. The United Nations must send troops into Palestine to keep the peace. But its responsibility does not stop there. Taking advantage of the arms embargo on Israel, the Arabs would welcomes a chance for unmolested rearmament. The longer such a truce lasted without settlement, the closer would be the danger of total war in the Near East. Once the Security Council has forcibly established order, it must stop stalling and come quickly to a satisfactory permanent solution...
...rest of the story concerns the hero's love affairs and other tried & true situations and characters familiar in historical romances: old Madam Inman, the head of the clan; the malicious Federalists and Jefferson's Embargo Act; the great storm at sea; the brilliant and hysterical girl; the cheers when the long-overdue ship reaches Salem harbor again. The Running of the Tide is no worse than most historical novels, but no better either...