Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Price of Admission. Why was De Gaulle holding off? In Britain, eager for a quick summit, the chagrined press cried "Vanity." De Gaulle's invitation to Khrushchev (which Khrushchev promptly accepted) was similarly treated by British editorialists as the general's wish to even the score with Macmillan and Eisenhower. Other critics suggested that De Gaulle wants to postpone the summit until France explodes its own A-bomb-which seems to be having troubles-so that it would not be the only nation at the summit outside the nuclear club...
Target: Moscow. Put more simply, De Gaulle's determination to delay the summit centers largely around the conflict that today dominates all of French thinking: the five-year-old Algerian war. He wants the summit to wait until the U.N. General Assembly gets around to its annual debate on Algeria, a debate that last year came within a hairbreadth of ending in U.N. censure of France. But he is not, as some critics supposed, primarily trying to blackmail the U.S. and Britain into supporting France in the U.N. His real target is Moscow...
...through a snowstorm in leaving the Pyrenees, and nearly came to grief on the main street of Vaduz when their car almost collided with a herd of cows. The delegate representing the haL'-square-mile domain of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace was Monaco's commissioner general of tourism, Gabriel Olivier, who arrived with a secretary and a head cold. San Marino, a landlocked mountain peak in northeastern Italy, sent a Belgian lawyer and musicologist who also serves as San Marino's consul general to Belgium and Liechtenstein. "They couldn't spare anyone from San Marino...
...Abstentions. When the vote was finally taken in the U.N. General Assembly. 45 nations approved a resolution implicitly "deploring" Red China's aggression in Tibet, and all nine nays were Communist. Red China thus stood roundly condemned before the world for its actions. But significantly, 26 nations abstained on the resolution. Among the abstainers, besides India, were such decidedly anti-Communist nations as France, Britain, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon explained that his country has misgivings about Tibet's legal status, and therefore the U.N.'s right to intervene; he wants...
...Long live martial law!" cried the peasants at village after village on the whistle-stop tour. Tall, strapping General Mohammed Ayub Khan, 52, dressed in open shirt and slacks, would lean from the doorway of his private railroad car and call: "How are you? How are the crops?" The village leader answered: "We are in perfect peace through your kindness." Others crowded round to beg Ayub to save them from a distasteful return of "democracy and politicians...