Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evacuation from Lebanon will be relatively easy, "since it merely involves walking down to the beach." But in Jordan there is no easy way out. Said the diplomat: "We don't regret going into Jordan. But we regret having had to do it." At week's end the U.S. embassy in Amman added to the confusion by "suggesting" that Americans in Jordan leave the country unless there were "compelling" reasons for them to remain. Grumbled a British officer: "It certainly seems ill-timed, I must...
What the Israelis particularly hoped for were positive assurances, in writing and publicly pronounced, that Washington and London would work to guarantee Israel's borders, and would come to Israel's aid if it was attacked. At week's end Israel's Milwaukee-raised Foreign Minister Golda Meir was invited to London on short notice. She had just held "satisfactory" talks with the French in Paris, where the De Gaulle government promised stepped-up arms shipments (Israel and France have been buddies against Nasser since Suez). From the British, about whom Israelis feel less sure, Minister...
Within 24 hours of his decision, Macmillan was on his way, declaring: "The first thing we need to do is end all the horrible bloodshed and misery." Arriving at Athens' Ellinikon airport, Macmillan shook hands with Greece's handsome Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, who attributes his rapidly greying hair to the Cyprus question. At almost the same time, Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot flew to Athens to talk privately with bearded Archbishop Makarios, the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus...
Just One More. Three days after it ran the picture, Jornal (but not Lacerda's Tribuna) grudgingly explained what really happened. Kubitschek was merely imploring the photographers to end their demands for "just one more," while a smiling, relaxed Dulles held a green Brazilian dispatch case containing the joint declaration they were about to sign...
...credit for a plea well presented. After a second meeting, Dulles dashed off for a luncheon talk before the American Chamber of Commerce, then flew to Brazil's new capital, Brasilia, for a farewell dinner with Kubitschek. Then he headed back for Washington, where at week's end the Export-Import Bank announced that credits totaling $58 million in favor of the Bank of Brazil had been granted by a consortium of U.S. private banks, along with a $100 million credit from the Export-Import Bank itself...