Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base in Beirut, McHale had a wry reaction to the inscription Kassem had written on his autographed photo. It read: "This is my gift to every noble newsman who battles for freedom of the people everywhere in the world." For a distillation of McHale's report, see FOREIGN NEWS...
...three parallel notes the U.S., Britain and France last week proposed to the Kremlin that the Big Four hold a foreign ministers' conference at Geneva starting May 11, with a view to a later parley at the summit. The wording of the notes reflected the varying degrees of Western enthusiasm. The U.S. said it would be "ready" to go to the summit as soon as "developments in the foreign ministers' meeting justify." Britain said it would be "glad" to go to the summit as soon as the foreign ministers' talks "warrant." France said it would be "disposed...
...invasion, which he described as a "disastrous act of folly almost without parallel in our history." Nor was ailing Tory Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden alone to blame, he went on: "There were others involved, and they were not ill." Jabbing his finger at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Gaitskell cried: "I believe that the guilty men are sitting there on those benches. It is time that they were brought to trial...
Then Macmillan turned on Nye Bevan, who, in becoming Labor's shadow Foreign Secretary, has left behind his old left-wing Bevanite crowd. As Bevan sat with face flaming, hands clenched, Macmillan pressed home the final scathing remark: "I feel sorry for him as he gropes about, abandoned by his old friends and colleagues-a shorn Samson surrounded by a bevy of prim and aging Delilahs." Labor's censure motion was defeated by a surprisingly large 70-vote margin...
...putting down the Moscow-First crowd, Gomulka gave no encouragement to those Poles who urge more and more freedom, more and more separation from Russia. Denouncing the "intellectual nonsense of political romanticists," he faithfully echoed all the claptrap of Russian foreign policy. But this orthodoxy gave him Moscow's support for a highly unorthodox domestic regime. Delegates from other Communist nations found themselves in the freest society behind the Iron Curtain, where the press still takes liberties (though less and less); where talk is comparatively free; where the secret police are all but gone, and the Roman Catholic Church...