Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.S. officials have discounted such reports, though the State Department conceded last week that the newest Syrian Cabinet was more leftish than State anticipated. Syria was the most outspoken Arab country in acclaiming Soviet "intervention"' at the time of last November's Middle East ceasefire. When the Russians...
The Prince of the Pagodas was a mixed bag of occasionally singing melody and frequently turgid choreography. For at least two acts, Britten's music was sonorous and strong, enriched by a variety of percussion effects and deft syncopation. Less successful was the work of Choreographer John Cranko, who...
While criticizing Anglo-French intervention in the Suez, Gaitskell insisted that it was only a "temporary affair, an aberration," which represented no return to colonialism. He pointed to independence granted to British colonies and dominions since the war, and efforts in that direction by France, as evidence that the two...
He did say that "NATO has made resistance to aggression in Europe certain" and that "nobody doubts that in certain conditions it would operate." But Hungary was not one of those situations, he declared, because intervention by the West would have risked a third world war.
A strong supporter of N.A.T.O. and the Atlantic Treaty, Gaitskell sharply attacked Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in a speech in the House of Commons for the British-French intervention in Egypt, calling the government's move an "assault on the free principles which have governed British foreign policy for...