Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milestone: Suez. The U.S. took its famous stand for international law by opposing the British-French-Israeli onslaught against Nasser's Egypt, effectively warned the Russians to stay out of the crisis, then failed to work out a way to channel Nasser's Arab expansionism away from Communism...
Oil Pool? "If I had my way," he went on, "I would like to see the whole Middle East quarantined and the sovereignty of each and every one of the states guaranteed by the great powers." His practical preference for economic solutions rather than political revolutions came clearest in his...
Arab nationalism, Nasser insisted, is not belligerent. "When we nationalized the Suez Canal," he shouted, "imperialism and its leaders rose and said that Egypt would close the canal. But did we close it? We left the canal to be an instrument of good for us and humanity. When your brethren...
Switzerland. Touchy about their neutrality, the Swiss refused a U.S. request to fly troop transports over their territory, though bankers and businessmen cheered the ability of the U.S. to move swiftly and decisively in the Middle East. But when United Press International's President Frank H. Bartholomew wrote after...
More than anything else last week, Kubitschek's cable dramatized his strong new stand as a pro-West world statesman. Until recently, he had taken pains to avoid offending his country's politically powerful supernationalists. and his government seemed to be drifting into murky neutralism. But after U.S...