Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French had been congratulating themselves ever since. "It saved France from making a blunder," said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. The French quickly saw in their accidental neutrality in this particular conflict a splendid chance to play procedural arbiter between West and East, and so to re-establish France among the top diplomatic powers. The situation suited lofty Charles de Gaulle...
Syed Nurul Alam, lecturer in Economics at Decca University in Pakistan, attributed his country's success to its policy of "to live and let others live." This slogan, he asserted, has allowed his divided nation to set up two capitals, establish a stable banking and currency system, and build up its industry...
...reason why Arab unity has to be against the West. The Arab world needs the techniques of the West to overcome its poverty, disease and ignorance. It needs the West's markets for its oil. But the misfortune of contemporary history is that any leader who tries to establish Arab unity in his own lifetime seems driven to make anti-Western emotion his main tool, and the more frenetic his outcry the more successful he is likely to be. Such is the destiny of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab in Western clothes...
...being unfeeling. Christ in His Crucifixion showed us how to suffer creatively. He did not claim to end suffering, nor did He bid His disciples to avoid suffering. So I repeat, I cannot establish any policy merely on whether or not it will save the human race from a period of suffering or from extinction...
Nasser was still in Yugoslavia, on holiday with wife and children, when the coup in Iraq took place. Did he expect it at that moment? Or, having supplied the fuel, had he left it to others to decide when the match was lit? After all, to establish innocence by geographical separation, he could also prove that he was away in Soviet Russia when the Lebanese revolt began...