Word: informality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowding Troubles. Early last week, Eden drove back to London from a weekend at Chequers. Everything seemed to crowd in upon him. There was Commonwealth opposition: his first visitor was Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike on his way to New York to inform the U.N. Assembly of the Colombo powers' condemnation of both Britain and Russia. Eden spent 30 minutes putting Britain's case to Bandaranaike, only to have him emerge and tell reporters that the actions of Britain and France in Egypt were "not at all justified," seemed "a resurgence of the spirit of imperialism...
Eden did not tell the U.S. He did not inform the members of the Common wealth, he did not tell the House of Commons, he did not inform his party colleagues. In fact, in the Foreign Office itself, only Lloyd seems to have been privy to the plan. Selwyn Lloyd chose this moment to indicate to the U.S. that he had fresh hopes of a peaceful Suez settlement...
...Inform ourselves to the saturation point of the current events abroad, particularly as they relate to the situation in Hungary and the other satellites. We should be aware of the great fight for freedom still in progress there...
Someone ought to inform dear Monica that we are electing a President and not a reigning family come November. She sounds like a strong argument for the repeal of woman suffrage...
After three years of service in the U.S. Marine Corps, Gates had returned to college this fall. According to his brother, Henry T. Gates '60 of Matthews Hall, he had failed to inform his parents before joining the Marines at the end of his freshman year. The younger Gates added that he had no fear for his brother's safety...