Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after he winds up his second successful term as Chief of Naval Operations. Top candidates for his job: Vice Chief James Russell, 55, long on staff experience; Admiral Harry Felt, 56, Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific forces; Vice Admiral George Anderson, 52, who adds to heavy staff experience a friendship with the President dating from a tour of duty at Supreme Allied Headquarters in Europe...
...Greece, whose amity is precarious at best, had only been painfully re-created after the killings and mass transfers of their two populations after World War I. The Turks, now threatened on their southern flank by Nasser's annexation of Syria and by Communist infiltration in Iraq, needed friendship with Greece In order to secure their western flank. The Greeks, after winning little sympathy In NATO, had failed to get a strong U.N. resolution on Cyprus last December. This apparently was the turning point: on the familiar cry of colonialism, the Greeks had vainly hoped for support from...
...empire." But to the majority of Englishmen, the jewel seemed to be becoming as jinxed as the Hope diamond. Its loss seemed a small price to pay for peace in Cyprus, for the saving of lives of British Tommies, for the renewal of Britain's traditional friendship with Greece and the re-establishment of NATO unity...
...have more affection and respect for the Filipino people. Kansas-born Jim Bell spent the formative years of his youth in northern Luzon, returned to the Philippines as an Army officer in World War II, has kept close ties with the islands ever since. One of the men whose friendship Bell most cherished was the Philippines' late, loved President Ramon Magsaysay-an incorruptible statesman who never found any difficulty in combining deep pride in being a Filipino with unshakable affection...
...Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which the blacks hold 14 seats to represent 6,000,000 people and the whites have the same number for 60,000. "We offer the Europeans the hand of friendship," he says, "but let them make no mistake about our determination to win our freedom...