Word: gulf
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Insistence of the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on unconditional withdrawal by Israel from the Gaza Strip and Gulf of Aqaba area has touched off a new row. Britain and France are opposed to this policy combined as it is with the threat of economic, moral or military sanctions...
Despite a sixth order from the U.N. General Assembly and a personal appeal from the President of the U.S., Israel dug in on the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba, flatly and firmly refusing to get out. To the U.N. and to Dwight Eisenhower's plea for "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind," Israel last week answered pointedly that "no guarantees have been obtained yet for definite stoppage of Egypt's belligerence and sea blockade of Israel." Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's Cabinet had decided that until such guarantees are obtained, Israel...
Though the U.S. oil pipeline system would gird the globe 7½ times, it is still not enough. In Houston last week, six oil companies (Continental, Standard of California, Gulf, Richfield, Shell and Superior) prepared to fill another gap in the system, jointly formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co. to supply California with its first piped crude oil. Houstonian R. G. McIntyre, recently retired chairman of the board of Standard Oil of Texas, was elected president of Four Corners, named for the oil-rich area where the borders of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet. The new line...
Eisenhower reported failure of today's Dulles-Eban talks in another way. The President said: "Israel persists in its occupation of Egyptian territory around the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba and of the Gaza Strip...
...significant event in the life of England's adolescent Labour Party was unquestionably the Russian Revolution. Immediately, instinctively, Labour moved to protect the new socialist state from the danger of extinction by the capitalist entente. The party--especially the trade unionists which formed its core--fully appreciated the vast gulf which separated the British socialist parliamentarian from the Russian Marxist revolutionary, yet it never ceased its work to ensure that Russia was given the same rights as any other state. At the same time, with a ruthless vigour, it acted to destroy communism at home...